For Clinicians

Autism Resources

The care of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families involves comprehensive care, including multidisciplinary techniques and strategies. Below are some broad resources for clinicians when providing care to individuals with autism and their families.

• CDC Hyperlink List for ASD
• CDC Information List for ASD Providers
• CDC Autism Case Training
• Autism Care Network
• Autism NJ (and annual conference details)
• NJ Association for Behavior Analysis
• Young Adult Institute’s Free Workshops
• Autism Speaks – Resources for Healthcare Providers
• Autism Speaks – Resources for Researchers
• NJ DoH Autism Registry
• PubMed Open Access Articles

Behavior-Analytic Resources

Our team has published a variety of resources related to the assessment and treatment of severe destructive behavior as well as training materials for teaching behavior-analytic skills. We have also enjoyed the opportunity to discuss behavior-analytic concepts in various forms of media. Please see the sections below for freely available materials:

Building a Severe Behavior Program

• Autism Speaks Toolkit – Developing a Severe Behavior Program

 

Training Manuals Related to the Treatment of Destructive Behavior

• Western Michigan University’s Autism Center of Excellence – Functional Communication Training (FCT)

Videos Related to the Treatment of Destructive Behavior

• Western Michigan University’s Autism Center of Excellence – Dr. Wayne Fisher’s FCT – Research Foundations
• Western Michigan University’s Autism Center of Excellence – Dr. Wayne Fisher’s FCT – Clinical Applications
• Western Michigan University’s Autism Center of Excellence – Dr. Cathleen Piazza’s Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders
• Case Western Reserve University – Dr. Wayne Fisher’s Behavioral Approaches to Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Autism Live – Dr. Wayne Fisher’s Wandering and Elopement
• Assessment and Treatment of Feeding Disorders in Children
• Mitteer, Randall, et al. (2020) – How to implement FCT with discriminative stimuli on AAC devices: Snap + Core First
• Mitteer, Randall et al. (2020) – How to implement FCT with discriminative stimuli on AAC devices:  Proloquo2Go

Video Tutorials Related to Basic Behavior-Analytic Skills

• Mitteer, Greer, et al. (2020) – Entering single-case data in GraphPad Prism
• Mitteer, Greer, et al. (2020) – Graphing single-case data in GraphPad Prism
• Mitteer et al. (2018) – Creating single-subject design graphs in GraphPad Prism 7
• Mitteer et al. (in press) – Using GraphPad Prism’s heat maps for efficient, fine-grained analyses of single-case data (repository also includes written TA and alternative Excel version)

Podcasts

• Behavioral Observations – Dr. Wayne Fisher on Best Practices for Functional Analysis and Function-Based Treatment
• Life with Behavior Analysis – Dr. Kathryn Peterson on Pediatric Feeding and Food Selectivity