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Response to Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention for autism—An umbrella approach to issues critical to treatment individualization
Author(s) -
Fava Leonardo,
Strauss Kristin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of developmental neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.761
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1873-474X
pISSN - 0736-5748
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2014.05.004
Subject(s) - autism , intervention (counseling) , consistency (knowledge bases) , flexibility (engineering) , applied behavior analysis , psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , computer science , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence
Integrating knowledge across the disciplines of genetics, neurological, and behavioral science targets, so far, early identification of children with autism and thus early access to intervention. Cross‐discipline collaboration might be substantially improve treatment efficacy via individualized treatment based on the child and family needs, consistency across treatment providers and careful planning of skill curricula, setting and techniques. This paper documents the current state of five main issues critical to treatment individualization where cross‐discipline collaboration is warranted: (1) developmental timing, (2) treatment intensity, (3) heterogeneity in treatment response, (4) program breath and flexibility, and (5) formats of treatment provision.