Autism and Evidence-based Practice

Interventions for Autism
Spectrum Disorders
STATE OF THE EVIDENC E

October 2009

Report of the Children‟s Services Evidence-Based
Practice Advisory Committee
A C OLLABORATION OF THE
M AINE D EPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
& THE MAINE D EPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Interventions for Autism Spectrum
Disorders
STATE OF THE EVIDENC E
Report of the Children’s Services Evidence -Based Practice Advisory Committee

A Collaboration of
THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES &
THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
October 2009

Maine Department of
Education

PROJECT LEADS:

Department of Health and Human Services
Lindsey Tweed, MD, MPH
Children‟s Behavioral Health Services
Department of Education
Nancy Connolly, MPPM
Special Services Team
Prepared by:
Amy Beaulieu, MSSW
Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy
Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine

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Maine.

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS| ..................................................................................................... 5
CHILDREN’S SERVICES EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE| ................. 6
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY| ...................................................................................................... 7
INTRODUCTION| .............................................................................................................. 12
PROJECT ORGANIZATION| ............................................................................................. 14
ABOUT AUTISM SPECTRUM