Sensory Integration Theory and Ayres Sensory Integration®

Kristina Gasiewski, MEd, MOTR/L, BCBA and Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D Melmark Authors’ Note: This treatment summary discusses Ayres Sensory Integration®, a sensory approach that has recently been shown to be associated with some change for some learners. This represents a change in existing literature, and stands in contrast to the literature on other sensory approaches,…

Rapid Prompting Method (RPM)

Updated by: Kathryn Daly, MA, BCBA, LBA Long Island ABA David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D Association for Science in Autism Treatment Description: Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), was developed by a parent of a child with autism in order to teach communication through a system of quickly delivered prompts, meant to match the rate at which a…

Facilitated Communication

Updated by: David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D, Kathryn Daly, MA, BCBA, and Jamaun Willis, MEd, BCBA Association for Science in Autism Treatment Description: Facilitated Communication (FC) is an intervention in which the service provider, a “facilitator,” holds the participant’s hands, wrists, or arms to help him or her spell messages on a keyboard or a board…

Early Start Denver Model

Updated by Frank Cicero, PhD, BCBA and Erin Leif, PhD, BCBA-D Association for Science in Autism Treatment Description: The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) is a commercially available, standardized, naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention designed for the treatment of young children (aged 12-48 months) with or at risk for an autism spectrum diagnosis (ASD). The ESDM…

Chelation Therapy

Updated by Lisa Tereshko, PhD, BCBA-D, Endicott College Joyce Mauk, MD, Burnett School of Medicine at TCU and Austin College Description: There is a hypothesis that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their systems than their peers (Lagan & Balfe, 2018); however, this hypothesis is unproven. This…

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ASAT Responds to Statesman.com’s “Popular autism treatment might not be effective, study finds”

Source   Thank you, Jordan Gass-Pooré, for your November 18, 2012 piece on sensory integration therapy (SIT). The Association for Science in Autism Treatment’s Media Watch initiative monitors mainstream media to identify published information about autism and autism treatment, and we provide critique where needed, as well as our praise to journalists writing objectively and…

Моему ребенку поставили диагноз Аутизм. И что теперь? – Список ранее опубликованных статей с аннотациями

Составлено Дэвидом Селиберти, доктором наук, BCBA-D, Марией Кадери, магистром здравоохранения, Эйлис О’Коннелл, MA, BCBA, и Кэтрин М. Дейли, MA, BCBA, LBA ASAT – Ассоциация Науки в Лечении Аутизма English version of article Cтатью перевели Элизабет Токарская и Марина Азимова, EdM, MSW, BCBA Получение диагноза для вашего ребенка может стать источником растерянности и эмоциональной травмы для родителей…

Mi hijo acaba de ser diagnosticado, ¿y ahora qué?: Una lista anotada de artículos publicados anteriormente

Traducido por Simon Celiberti-Byam y Carolina Arguello, MS, BCBA Association for Science in Autism Treatment Recibir un diagnóstico para su hijo puede ser confuso y abrumador para los padres del mundo. Publicamos este artículo traducido para mostrar algunos de nuestros articulos publicados anteriormente que pueden ser útiles para usted. Para su comodidad, cada uno de los…