Early and intensive behavioral intervention for autism: A survey of clinical practices
Love, Carr, Almason and Petursdottir has just published an article where they trough an internet-based survey assessed different EIBI programs different characteristics and practises. The article is to be published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
The survey reveals several interesting results, and I´m pleased to see that several programs reports to use different sources to their curriculum, even if I would like to se the number even higher. With the large extent of research done in ABA, it´s useful to combine different curriculum as the different published manuals show different results in different areas. But as I think this is a strength so far, it should be a future goal to standardize the EIBI treatment to the largest extent possible, also in terms of curricula and manuals. A total and absolute standard would not be possible as far as I see, the core of a good ABA-program is the analysis of behavior, not the implementation of predefined procedures!
The article also discuss other interesting features, and it´s goal according to the authors is to start assessing the differences in EIBI-programs. This is an important start, and for the field of EIBI to evolve and uphold a strong position in the field of autism and other developmental disorders, it is crucial to better describe the characteristics of the programs and investigate the effects of these characteristics.
So it´s an important start on a important work, and a good article that should guide much further research!
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