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Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders — Disposition of Comments Report, October 6, 2011. HHS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  • “This is an extremely detailed report that, to a large extent, summarizes well the state of the science with respect to what is known about the efficacy of therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders. It is a clinically-meaningful report. One weakness, however, is its failure to capture the large amount of important and clinically-relevant empirical evidence that is reflected in single subject design studies. The authors should be prepared for some people to argue that single subject studies should have been included in this review, because many well accepted systems for evaluating empirical evidence for efficacy of treatments consider multiple studies using single-subject designs to be a valid way to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment method. The area this affects the most is certain types of behavioral interventions for challenging behavior, specifically, functional behavior analysis and positive behavior support which have a wealth of single-subject data to support their efficacy in reducing severe challenging behaviors. It is recommended that this limitation of the review be explicitly recognized.”
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