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Contemporary autism services, while superior to those of the past, are not nearly good enough. Treatment innovations are urgently needed. We survey some of the activities from which treatment innovations may arise and identify translational scholarship as an especially promising source. We also identify reasons why translational scholarship emerges too infrequently and suggest some ways that autism practitioners may help to stimulate new translational thinking.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We adapt this phrase from Root-Bernstein (1989), who had a slightly different emphasis when coining it.

  2. 2.

    This is not to imply that broad public appeal is a good index of research importance. In the early 1980s, retrovirology was considered a rather esoteric area of specialization in virology basic research. Only one retrovirus was known to exist, and it was unclear how its study could benefit medical practice generally. When the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic emerged, however, and a retrovirus was found to be responsible, retrovirology became the focus of considerable public and scientific interest (Gallo 2006). A tenet of the “Someone, Someday” perspective with which we agree is that it is impossible to prejudge the importance of basic research . It remains true, however, that a considerable amount of basic research appears not to stimulate practical innovations.

  3. 3.

    We take creative license here in presenting a popular but apocryphal version of Mendel’s story, the true version of which retains the image of science lost in obscurity. The records of Mendel’s experiments actually were burned upon his death, rather than bricked up in the walls of the abbey in which he had worked. During his lifetime, Mendel published just one scientific paper in an obscure journal. Consequently, his work was largely ignored for about 35 years (Carlson 2004).

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Critchfield, T., Doepke, K., Campbell, R. (2015). Origins of Clinical Innovations: Why Practice Needs Science and How Science Reaches Practice. In: DiGennaro Reed, F., Reed, D. (eds) Autism Service Delivery. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2656-5_1

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