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The National Autism Center is dedicated to serving children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)by providing reliable information, promoting best practices, and offering comprehensive resources for families, practitioners, and communities. The National Autism Center initiated the National Standards Project to conduct a comprehensive review and evaluation of existing research into treatments for children and adolescents with ASD. The resulting National Standards Project Report was published in 2009 to share these findings. (See Appendix for the Findings and Conclusions report.)We offer this educator manual to help fulfill the National Autism Center’s mission to advocate for evidence-based practice, and to assist front-line interventionists as they select and implement the most effective research-supported treatments for ASD." [READ MORE... ]