Whatever your role—general or special education teacher, school counselor, therapist, behavior analyst, administrator—you undoubtedly interact with learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and are committed to helping them succeed and thrive.
This easy-to-use accessible guide summarizes more than 75 interventions and rates each based on the most recent evidence of effectiveness and safety.
Written by educators with decades of experience and expertise in a variety of settings, many of whom are also Board Certified Behavior Analysts, this comprehensive guide is an indispensable resource for all those who serve students with ASD.
Behavioral Interventions
Antecedent Based Interventions
Discrete Trial Teaching
Errorless Learning
Task Analysis
Prompting
Time Delay
Behavioral Momentum
Response Interruption and Redirection
Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement
Modeling
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Functional Communication Training
Extinction
Punishment
UCLA Young Autism Project (Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention)
Early Start Denver Model(Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention)
Learning Experiences: An Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Parents (LEAP) (Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention)
Ziggurat/Comprehensive Autism Planning System
Visual Supports
Schedules
Independent Work Systems
Scripting
Power Cards
Language Training
Verbal Behavior Intervention
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Aided Language Modeling
Assisted Technology
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS))
Social, Emotional and/or Behavioral Skills Training
Behavioral Skills Training
Teaching Interaction Procedure
Cool Versus Not Cool
Video Modeling
Theory of mind training
Cartooning
Social Decision-Making Strategies
Social Narratives/ Story-based Intervention
The Program for Education and Enrichment of Relationship Skills (PEERS®)
Self-Management
Mindfulness
The Coping Cat Program
Social Thinking
Zones of Regulation
The Incredible Five Point Scale
FaceSay®
Mindreading
Natural Developmental Behavioral Interventions
Incidental Teaching
Imitation Based Interventions
Mileau Teaching
Joint Attention Interventions
Pivotal Response Interventions
Developmental Relationship-Based Interventions
Responsive Teaching
DIRFloor Time®
Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
Relational Frame Theory Based Interventions
Stimulus Equivalence Instruction (SEI)
Matrix Training
Promoting Emergence of Advanced Knowledge (PEAK)
Acceptance and Commitment Training
Miscellaneous Interventions
Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention
Parent Implemented Interventions
Music Mediated Intervention
Music Intensity
Animal Assisted Intervention
Art Therapy
Outdoor Adventure
Toilet Training
SENSE Theatre Intervention
Exercise and Movement
Gentle Teaching
Transition
Systematic Transition in Education Programme for Autism Spectrum Disorder (STEP-ASD)
Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI)
Person-Centered Planning
Physiological Interventions
Chelation
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Specialized Diets
Microbiome Therapies
Metavitamin Therapy
Sensory Integration
Potential of Causing Significant Harm
Rapid Prompting Method
Holding Therapy
Contingent Electric Skin Shock (CESS)
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