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  Best Practices: Ensuring Quality Intervention

It is important to ensure your child is receiving high quality intervention. The following are best practices for implementing autism services and treatments:

  • Development of an individualized plan of intervention based on a curriculum that emphasizes six basic skill domains:
    • academic;
    • communication;
    • social/play skills;
    • emotional/self regulation;
    • motor/sensory functioning;
    • independence/life skills
  • Intensive, direct one-to-one intervention at home, in pre-school programs and in a variety of community settings on a year round basis;
  • High levels of predictability and routine;
  • Highly supportive, structured teaching methods, based on the principles of applied behaviour analysis (ABA), that incorporate a variety of strategies to facilitate efficient acquisition, generalization and maintenance of skills;
  • Progression from more formal and structured to more natural settings;
  • Use of functional assessment and positive behavioural support techniques to address problem behaviours;
  • Use of multiple, integrated therapies such as speech-language pathology, occupational therapy and physical therapy;
  • Integration with typical children in preschool/day care settings;
  • Family involvement in training and in the development, implementation and review of intervention and service plans;
  • Transition planning from preschool to kindergarten;
  • Trained and adequately supervised staff; and,
  • Regular, ongoing monitoring of the child’s progress by parents and professionals, and re-assessment and evaluation of the program at least once every six to twelve months.

 

 
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