The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder (or, NPDC on ASD), a multi-university center to promote the use of evidence-based practice for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders, has identified 24 evidence-based practices for working effectively with individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
NPDC on ASD is in the process of developing free online modules for evidenced-based practices to support individuals with ASD and the modules will soon be available through the Autism Internet Modules website. In the meantime, an evidence-based practice (EPB) brief has been developed for each of the 24 identified evidence-based practices. Each brief includes the following core components: an overview of the practice, step-by-step directions for implementation, an implementation checklist, and the evidence base for the practices. Some of EBP briefs also include supplementary materials like data collection sheets.
The following EPB briefs for supporting children and youth with ASD are currently available from NPDC on ASD:
- Antecedent-Based Interventions (ABI)
- Computer-Aided Instruction
- Differential Reinforcement
- Discrete Trial Training
- Extinction
- Functional Behavior Assessment
- Functional Communication Training
- Naturalistic Intervention
- Parent-Implemented Interventions
- Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- Pivotal Response Training
- Prompting
- Reinforcement
- Response Interruption/Redirection
- Self-Management
- Social Narratives
- Social Skills Groups
- Speech Generating Devices/VOCA
- Structured Work Systems
- Task Analysis
- Time Delay
- Video Modeling
- Visual Supports
