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General Principles of Behavior Management

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Behavioral Issues in Autism

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Few individuals responsible for the care and/or treatment of children with autism would dispute the fact that these children present one of the toughest challenges we have faced. Everyone is challenged: the family, the schools, treatment specialists, and the entire community. Over the years since autism was first described by Leo Kanner (1943), a number of treatment approaches have been proposed and implemented, only to lead to limited and/or disappointing results. However, treatment from a behavioral perspective, that is, treatment based upon the principles of learning, has proven to have particular promise as a means of helping this severely handicapped population.

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Schreibman, L. (1994). General Principles of Behavior Management. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) Behavioral Issues in Autism. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9400-7_2

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