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Creating Optimum Autism Programs & Universal Best Practice

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The following are the best practice intervention features that have been shown to be a common foundation to all successful intervention programs:

1. Emphasize earliest possible diagnosis, assessment and implementation of appropriate effective Autism interventions

2. Programs are tailored to the specific needs of each individual

3. Highly structured and skill oriented teaching and treatment programs

4. Frequent informal reassessment and data based tracking of skill growth.

5. Use individual motivational systems.

6. Teaching areas are structured, organized and distraction-free environments which incorporate intensive one-to-one and small group sessions. Activities and routines are flexible yet predictable. Time spent waiting is kept to a minimum.

7. Provide multiple settings and consistency of methodology for promoting skills generalization.

8. Ail personnel are well trained and continuously evaluated for competence and consistency in application of the treatment model.

9. Comprehensive home programming and parent training incorporated into a team approach that uses the family's talent in a co-treatment model.

10. Intervention strategies maintained full-day and year-round from preschool through adulthood.

Research by COSAC/Autism Information Clearinghouse