Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions for Autism: Integrating Research into Practice

This handbook addresses evidence-based practices in Applied Behavior  Analysis (ABA) for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder  (ASD). It provides an overview of the history of evidence-based  practices and their importance as applied to the law, school settings,  and factors that influence the use for treatment of ASD. Additional  areas of coverage include evidence-based and non-evidence-based ABA  interventions for autism as well as decision-making ethics related to  these treatments. In addition, the book addresses cultural  considerations as they relate to these treatments and examines  procedural aspects of ABA interventions for autism.

Key ABA treatments addressed include

Discrete trial teaching.
Pivotal response training.
Video modeling.
Parent-mediated intervention.
Early Start Denver Model, PEAK, PECS, and AAC.
Script fading/activity schedules and differential reinforcement/extinction.
Response interruption and redirection.
Self-management and self-monitoring.

The  Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions for Autism is a  must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as  well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals across such  interrelated disciplines as clinical child, school, and developmental  psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, rehabilitation  medicine/therapy, pediatrics, and special education.