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Center-Based Programs

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Center-based programs for children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) typically focus their interventions exclusively on this population of learners and are often based in universities although some are freestanding private programs. Center-based programs include research on intervention with ASD as an important aspect of their work.

Historical Background

In the late 1960s, shortly after Lovaas et al. (1965, 1973) demonstrated that children with autism living on a hospital’s inpatient unit could learn adaptive skills, interest in the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA) as a treatment approach for autism increased in universities around the United States. For example, the Koegel Autism Center at UC, Santa Barbara, was opened in 1971 with an outpatient clinic and an experimental classroom. The research on pivotal response treatment coming from that center over the years has been highly influential to the field of ABA (e.g., Koegel et al. 1987)....

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  1. Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Harris, S. (2016). Center-Based Programs. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_906-5

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