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My name is Brian Reichow.
I'm an Associate Professor at
the Anita Zucker Center
for Excellence and
Early Childhood Studies at
the University of Florida.
Today I'll be presenting on
Evidence-Based
Practices for Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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A brief overview of
what we'll cover today.
I'll provide a background
and an overview of
the conceptualization of
evidence-based practice.
We'll then look at
some comprehensive
programs for children.
I'll then describe four
comprehensive treatment programs
for children with autism.
We'll then look at a
few focal treatments
for children with autism.
I'll provide some conclusions
and future directions,
and then provide additional
resources and references.
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Initial conceptualization
of evidence-based practice
was in the field of medicine and
it was termed
evidence-based medicine.
But it really looked
at the intersection
of three different types
of evidence and expertise.
It was looking at the
best research evidence,
clinical expertise, and
patient values and choices.
Evidence-based
medicine really became
the intersection of
these three areas.
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According to the earliest
conceptualizations,
evidence-based medicine or
practice wasn't necessarily
just a designation of
a treatment as being
evidence-based.
They really looked at
it as being a process.
The five steps of
evidence-based practice were:
To formulate a focused question;
what do you want to address
with the treatment?
Some type of
systematic retrieval
of the best empirical evidence;
what does the
literature tell us?
Once the literature is located,
appraising the evidence and
examining its validity,
the relevance, and
applicability,
and also looking at the
magnitude of the effects.
Once you were able to
appraise the evidence,
the decision on which treatment
to use could be made.
You'd begin using the
treatment and continue to
evaluate performance
to ensure that
the desired results were found.
If the desired results
were occurring,
you would continue to
use that treatment.
If the desired results
were not found,
that the child
was not making the
progress that was desired,
you could go back into
these steps and evaluate
other treatments to determine if
there was another treatment
that might be a better choice.
