Research: Early Intervention for Children with Autism: Methodologies Critique

Authored by Tews, L. in Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 148-168, (2007).

Article summary (posted Dec 24, 2008):

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is the best researched of all autism therapies and studies have shown that it may help children with autism.

There is a lot of research to support the use of early and intense intervention for children with autism. One thing that early intervention may help with is to teach children with autism to think in abstract ways. It can also help to teach basic skills such as how to communicate and how to function. This review article describes ABA therapy and the Lovaas method as it is used to treat children with autism. The author concludes that the current research shows that the Lovaas method and discrete trial training can help children with autism.

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applied behavior analysis (ABA), autism, communication, developmental disabilities, discrete trial training (DTT), early intervention (EI), intervention, Lovaas method, review article, therapy
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