Autism SIG – 2025 Annual Report
By Justin Leaf
The Autism SIG has been very busy this year meeting our goals of promoting evidence-based treatment, promoting best practice as it relates to procedures/interventions based upon the principals of applied behavior analysis (ABA), helping consumers identify components of ABA, help protect autistic individuals from non-evidenced based procedures, and being a scientific resource for our members. Members of the Autism SIG Executive Council have been advocating for other regional, national, and international conferences to start having autistic adults present at their conferences. This has resulted in numerous conferences including more and more autistic voices. The second major endeavor that we have undertaken this year has been submitting response papers to misinformation about behavioral intervention as it applies to intervention for autistic individuals. The purpose of these papers has been to help consumers better navigate various concerns about ABA and how to still implement quality ABA.
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