Aim To identify which interventions are supported by evidence and the quality of that
evidence in very young children with or at high likelihood for autism spectrum disorder …

Autism has become one of the most heavily researched topics in the field of mental health
and education. While genetics has been the most studied of all topics, applied behavior …

Receptive language refers to responding appropriately to another person's spoken
language. Most curricula dedicate a proportion of early intervention to developing receptive …

Many early intervention curricular manuals recommend teaching auditory‐visual conditional
discriminations (ie, receptive labeling) using the simple‐conditional method in which …

Once considered rare, autism is now viewed as a common and highly debilitating condition
that has generated great interest among mental health professionals worldwide. The …

A common characteristic of the language deficits experienced by children with autism (and
other developmental disorders) is their failure to acquire a complex intraverbal repertoire …

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often display impaired listener skills, and few
studies have evaluated procedures for establishing initial auditory‐visual conditional …

Previous research has demonstrated that the conditional‐only method (starting with a
multiple‐stimulus array) is more efficient than the simple‐conditional method (progressive …

Background Progress in diagnostic assessment made it possible to diagnose ASD at a
young age. Concurrently, intervention research for toddlers with ASD has increased since …

Discrete trial teaching (DTT) and discrimination training are among the most supported
components of early and intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI). DTT is a highly structured …