Compiled by David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D and Sunita Chhatwani, MSc, MEd
Association for Science in Autism Treatment
Photographed by RF._.studio (pexels.com)
ASAT’s mission is to promote safe, effective, and science-based treatments for people with autism. As part of this mission, we created this area of our webpage to showcase topical content for behavior analysts. The resources listed below are a combination of treatment summaries, research synopses, book reviews, article reviews, resources, and articles to help behavior analysts navigate the challenges they face daily. As we expand upon our content through our monthly newsletters and website updates, we will include newer additions here. Please note that we have included a second section to highlight articles that can be shared with your families and other consumers.
Section I: Articles for Behavior Analysts
In this section, we have provided you with a non-exhaustive list of previously published ASAT articles that are categorized by article type.
Select Clinical Corners Responses related to children
-
- Early intensive ABA program for autism
- Teaching 18 months-old with autism
- What to expect from a quality ABA program
- Expanding interest
- Importance of engagement
- Building rapport using strategies to promote pairing
- Promoting maintenance
- Increasing articulation
- Teaching children to answer WH questions
- Identifying motivators
- Self-injurious behaviors
- Functional communication training
- Encouraging parent participation in home-based intervention
- What is a functional analysis and when should it be done
- Multidisciplinary collaboration in the establishment of oral hygiene habits
- Problem behavior triggered by specific words
- Toilet-training
- Bowel training
- Food selectivity (Seiverling & Williams)
- Food selectivity (Belchic-Schwartz)
Select Clinical Corners Responses related to adolescents and adults
Other Clinical Corners Responses
-
- Professional development beyond the BCBA
- Evidence-based telehealth practice in the time of COVID-19
- Explaining applied behavior analysis to parents and colleagues
- Language considerations when working with bilingual families
- Integrating ABA and speech pathology
- Ethical and practical considerations when collaborating with non-behavioral service providers
- Understanding the needs of black families of children with autism
Behavior Analytic Treatment Summaries
Select Synopses of Recently Published Research
-
- Increasing appropriate conversation skills using a behavioral skills training package for adults with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder
- Competitive employment for youth with autism spectrum disorders
- Towards an understanding of the essential components of behavior analytic service plans
- The effects of an escape extinction procedure using protective equipment on self-injurious behavior
- Evaluating a treatment without extinction for elopement maintained by access to stereotypy
- EIBI in community settings: Public preschool and kindergarten
- Dental desensitization for students with autism spectrum disorder through graduated exposure, reinforcement, and reinforcement-fading
- Classroom application of functional analysis
- Implementing a manualized, classroom transition intervention
- Effects of video modeling on abduction-prevention skills
- The effect of photographic activity schedules on moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in children with ASD
- Using a picture activity schedule treatment package to teach toothbrushing
- Comparing in-view to out-of-view stimulus arrangements when teaching receptive labels for children diagnosed with autism
- A multisite randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of intervention intensity and intervention style on outcomes for young children with autism
- The distance between empirically supported treatment and actual practice for paediatric feeding problems: An international clinical perspective
Authors’ Note: We have over sixty research synopses that would be of interest to behavior analysts on such broad topics as early intervention, skill acquisition, behavior reduction, family support, and lifespan considerations. The entire library of research synopses can be found here.
Select Articles:
-
- How ASAT supports international behavior analysts
- Treatment integrity: Why it is important regardless of discipline
- Autism services in jeopardy for thousands of military families
- What autism awareness should be about
- Comorbidity in autism
- Retraction of published research
- Some cautions on the standardized assessments
- Strategies to consider when conducting a comprehensive literature search
- The Picture Exchange Communication System: Is there science behind that?
Select Article Reviews
-
- Article Review: Concerns about ABA-based intervention: An evaluation and recommendations
- Article Review: Promoting functional communication within the home
- Article Review: ABAI’s interprofessional collaborative practice between behavior analysts and speech-language pathologists
- Article Review: Collaboration between behavior analysts and occupational therapists in autism service provision
- Article Review: Compassionate care in behavior analytic treatment
- Article Review: Training practitioners to evaluate evidence about interventions
- Article Review: Countering evidence denial and the promotion of pseudoscience in autism spectrum disorder
- Article Review: Use of practice guidelines and position statements in ethical decision making
- Article Review: Applied Behavior Analysis, autism, and occupational therapy: A search for understanding
Select Book Reviews
-
- Book Review: ABA Tools of the Trade: Easy data collection for the classroom
- Book Review: Responsible and responsive parenting in autism: Between now and dreams
- Book Review: The training curriculum for supervisors of ABA technicians in autism programs
- Book Review: Organizational Behavior Management approaches for intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Book Review: The Function Wheels
- Book Review: The complete guide to autism treatments (2nd edition)
- Book Review: Practical ethics for effective treatment of autism spectrum disorder
- Book Review: ABA for SLPs: Interprofessional collaboration for autism support teams
- Book Review: Let’s make a contract
- Book Review: Focus on behavior analysis in education: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities
- Book Review: Activity schedules for children with autism: Teaching independent behavior
- Book Review: Teaching social skills to people with autism: Best practices in individualizing interventions
- Book Review: The power of positive parenting
- Resource Review: Working in the community: A guide for employers of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
- Book Review: Discrete-trials teaching with children with autism: A self-instruction manual
- Book Review: Applied behavior analysis and autism: An introduction
Other Selected Reviews
-
- Review: Practical ABA Modules
- Website Review: Showcasing Behavior Development Solutions: An overview
- Review: Bx Blueprint by How to ABA
- Review: Elopement of children with autism
- Review: Transition resources for adolescents and adults with autism
- Website Review: The September 26th Project
- Website Review: OAR’s Hire Autism
- Overview of ABA ultimate showdown podcasts for round 1 (IISCA vs. Traditional FA)
- Resource Review: The website for the B. F. Skinner foundation
Select Interviews and Perspective Pieces
-
- Interview with Tracie Lindblad, MSc, MEd, SLP, BCBA
- Interview with Dr. Paul McDonnell
- Interview with Dr. Lina Slim
- Interview with Dr. Bill Heward
- Interview with Dr. Catherine Maurice
- Interview with Dr. Sabrina Freeman
- Interview with Rita Gardner: Where we are and where we have been – Successes and challenges in ABA
- Interview with Melmark’s Executive Leadership Team
- Interview with Dr. Mickey Keenan
- Interview with Dr. Michelle Kelly: Part 1 of 2
- Interview with Dr. Michelle Kelly: Part 2 of 2
- Interview with Dr. Francesca degli Espinosa (Italy)
- Interview with Xueyi Deng, BCBA (China)
- Interview with Kaidi Zhou and Julie Liu of MyStar ABA (China)
- Interview: Supporting positive portrayals of science-based autism treatment in the media
- Related services in an ABA setting: An interview with 3 members of the BACA team
- Perspectives: The myths I believed about behavior analysis
- Perspectives: Bringing out the best in aspiring behavior analysts
- Perspectives: Advocates and analysts seeking to bridge the gap – A poet and a scientist-practitioner’s take on the current pushback to ABA
- Perspectives: Applied behavior analysis in speech-language therapy
Select Media Watch Articles
Section II: Articles that Can be Shared with Clients
In this section, we have provided you with a non-exhaustive list of previously published ASAT articles that can be shared with clients and other consumers of your services. These can be categorized thematically.
Related to Advocacy and Getting Started
-
- Advocating for your child
- Resource review: Autism: Start here, what families need to know (3rd Edition)
- CDC’s “Learn the signs. Act early.”
- Packet for parents of newly diagnosed children
- What to expect from a quality ABA program
- Book Review: Autism’s declaration of independence: Navigating autism in the age of uncertainty
- Resource review: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism: An introduction
- How should you approach your concerns that a family member may have autism?
- Review: Life Journey Through Autism: A parent’s guide to research
- My child was just diagnosed, now what? A non-exhaustive, annotated list of previously published but relevant ASAT articles
- Some outside resources
- Recognizing deficits in infants and toddlers that may indicate ASD (For Pediatricians)
- The Road Less Traveled: Charting a clearer course in autism treatment
- Description of the treatment team
- Focus on the treatment team: Speech-language therapy
- Focus on the treatment team: Occupational therapy
- Focus on the treatment team: Physical therapy
- Focus on the treatment team: Applied behavior analysis
Related to Evidence-based Choice Making
-
- Explaining decisions to use science-based autism treatments
- Avoiding the pitfalls of circular reasoning
- Can scientists prove that a treatment does not work? And… Is bigfoot real?
- Caveat Lector: Let the reader beware
- The pitfalls of testimonials
- Underwater basket weaving therapy for Autism: Don’t laugh! ……It could happen
- Ten resources for consumers to evaluate information sources
- What is evidence-based practice and why should we care?
- Questions to ask marketers of autism interventions
- A non-exhaustive list of current position statements related to autism treatment
Related to Education
-
- How can I teach social skills in a group?
- Setting up the classroom to optimize learning opportunities and effective instruction
- Measuring social skill goals
- Educating for inclusion
- What goes into teaching children to answer WH questions?
- Resources for classmates about autism
- Promoting autism acceptance and awareness in high school settings
- A non-exhaustive list of apps
Related to Home-based Intervention
-
- A review of Autism 24/7: A family guide to learning at home and in the community
- How can I teach telephone skills at home?
- My child is home with me. Any suggestions for home schooling?
- Promoting cooperation
- How can I teach my son to cooperate with wearing a face mask?
- What information should I get from the teacher and what can we do to promote carryover during this extended period of home schooling?
- Productive meetings in home ABA programs
- A non-exhaustive list of safety products
- Managing home-based ABA program
- Book Review: Let’s make a contract
Related to Community-based Interventions
Related to Other Intervention Considerations
-
- How can occupational therapy benefit my child’s ABA program?
- Is a BCBA the right professional to help with my child’s sensory issues?
- How can I prepare to speak to a doctor about prescribing medication for aggression?
- What are some essential skills in a COVID-19 era?
- What are some considerations surrounding the initiation and fading of gastrostomy tubes?
- My child is enrolled in an ABA-based program where he also receives some OT services. How can occupational therapy benefit my child’s ABA program?
- Integrating ABA and speech pathology
- Review of Collaboration between behavior analysts and occupational therapists in autism service provision: Bridging the gap.
Related to Family Matters
-
- How to manage the impact of child with a disability on siblings
- How likely is it that I could have another child with autism?
- Managing a home-based ABA program
- When should parents be included in the implementation of a behavior intervention plan?
- What information should I get from the teacher and what can we do to promote carryover during this extended period of home schooling?
- What input can be provided to the school following an extended period of home schooling?
- What are some language considerations when working with bilingual families?
- Racial and ethnic disparities in geographic access to autism resources across the US
- A review of Life as an autism sibling
- How to better meet the needs of black families
- Review of Autism and the Family: Understanding and supporting parents and siblings
Related to Lifespan Considerations
-
- Importance of engagement for good transitional planning
- How ASAT supports parents of older children and adults
- Does ABA work for older children?
- How should IEP goals prepare an adolescent for adulthood and is ABA still useful?
- What are some adaptive skills for a young adult to gain independence?
- Preparing adults with autism for employment success
- Preparation for employment
Related to Translation Needs
-
- Making the most of google translate on asatonline.org
- Translated flyers
- Artículos en Español / Articles in Spanish
- Mi hijo acaba de ser diagnosticado, ¿y ahora qué?: Una lista anotada de artículos publicados anteriormente (Spanish)
- Моему ребенку поставили диагноз Аутизм. И что теперь? – Список ранее опубликованных статей с аннотациями (Russian)
- Các bài báo bằng Tiếng Việt / Articles in Vietnamese
- हिंदी में लेख / Articles in Hindi
We hope that this comprehensive compilation of our articles will serve as a useful resource for individuals who are interested in learning more about the science and practice of autism treatment from a behavior analytic persepective. We encourage you to share these articles with your colleagues, students, families and other consumers who may benefit from them. As we are deeply committed to providing accurate and up-to-date information on evidence-based interventions for autism such as ABA, we invite you to return to this page often.
Citation
Celiberti, D., & Chhatwani, S. (2024). A compilation of articles of interest to behavior analysts. Science in Autism Treatment, 21(3).
#BehaviorAnalysts #EarlyCareerAndStudents #Faculty #Reseachers #International
