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FEAT Goals

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• Outreach into the community to increase awareness of behavioral treatments* for children with autism.
• Outreach to the medical, educational, and general community to aid in the early and appropriate identification of children with autism and to increase their awareness of effective treatment modalities.
• To assist parents in obtaining advocacy support to get appropriate services from private and public agencies for their children with autism
• To assist parents in obtaining behavioral therapists to work with their children with autism
• To obtain funds from private and public sources to achieve the goals listed above
• To support families with autistic children through educational meetings and parent networking.

* There is a myriad of applied behavior analytic interventions that fall under this criteria and are effective in autism: discrete trial training, verbal behavior, incidental teaching, pivotal response training, precision teaching, Direct Instruction, functional behavior analysis, self-managment programs, rule governed behavior programs and more.