Parent to Parent: Making the Case for Evidence-based Practice

• Published in: The Exceptional parent 2012-04, Vol.42 (4), p.15
• Main Authors: Rue, Hanna C, Ladew, Patricia
• Format: Magazinearticle
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anxiety Disorders; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Cerebral Palsy; Children & youth; Christianity; Daily Living Skills; Data Collection; Evaluative Thinking; Evidence Based Practice; Evidence-based medicine; Families & family life; Family Structure; Individualized Education Programs; Individualized Programs; Investment; Jargon; Lay People; National Standards; Nonverbal Communication; Parent Materials; Positive Behavior Supports; Psychological Patterns; Resistance (Psychology); School Districts
• ISSN: 2373-2881

The first chapter includes a review of autism spectrum symptoms (including difficulties with verbal and nonverbal communication, problems with social behaviors, sensory sensitivity, etc.), and conditions that may be co-occurring (such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder). [...]it took the National Autism Center's "expert panel"-comprised of leaders in the fields of psychology, speech-language pathology, medicine, behavior analysis, and positive behavior supports -several years to review thousands of research abstracts and evaluate hundreds of studies before they were able to determine which treatments had sufficient evidence to support their effectiveness, and which did not. [...]parents understand better than anyone how an ASD diagnosis, and the impact of all the challenges listed here, can have a profound effect on their family.