Behavioral treatments in autism spectrum disorder: What do we know?

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 447-468

  Vismara, Laurie A ^a   Rogers, Sally J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied behavior analysis; Autism spectrum disorder; Discrete trial training; Intervention; Naturalistic behavioral teaching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DISCRETE TRIAL TRAINING; EARLY INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SPEECH THERAPY; TRAINING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 77952909655     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.121208.131151     Document Type: Review

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