Thanks to a Facebook follower, this week’s podcast highlights a new systematic review on Early Intense Behavioral Intervention. This systematic review, however, is not different from one published 5 years ago, because the nature of early interventions have changed so much that they no longer fit into the same criteria. While the rankings are disappointing, the findings do not reflect the ways in which newer interventions are being selected, delivered and studied. Also, we always hear about early diagnosis helping with early intervention. But what about kids who are not diagnosed until they reach school age? They have a different profile of ASD and may be a different subgroup of autism altogether.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29742275

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29852752