Approaches to Autism Intervention

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Your patient is a young child who has recently been diagnosed with autism. Her parents are asking about the available treatments, and in particular, they want to know whether they should pursue the 40-hour-per-week program recommended by the local autism society. As clinicians, we are often faced with questions from families about the “best” pr

Effect Size Matters: The Seismic Shift Toward Naturalistic and Developmental Interventions in Autism

Topics: ABA | Applied Behavioral Analysis | Autism | Developmental Relationship Based Intervention | DRBI | effect size | Naturalistic Developmental-Behavioral Intervention | NDBI

CCPR: Welcome, Dr. Sandbank. Tell us about your work. Dr. Sandbank: My current research is in social communication and language interventions for young children with disabilities, including those on the autism spectrum. I am lead researcher on Project AIM, a vast systematic review and meta-analysis of all group design studies of interventions for young