Interventions

Arrangement of events or circumstances that precede an activity or demand in order to increase the occurrence of a behavior or lead to the reduction of the challenging/interfering behaviors

Instruction on management or control of cognitive processes that lead to changes in behavioral, social, or academic behavior.

A collection of techniques and strategies that are embedded in typical activities and/or routines in which the learner participates to naturally promote, support, and encourage target skills/behaviors

Parent delivery of an intervention to their child that promotes their social communication or other skills or decreases their challenging behavior.

Intervention in which peers directly promote autistic children’s social interactions and/or other individual learning goals, or the teacher/ other adult organizes the social context (e.g. play groups, social network groups, recess) and when necessary provides support (e.g., prompts, reinforcement) to the autistic children and their peer to engage in social interactions

*PBII is a reconceptualized category that now includes adult-mediated interventions with peers in addition to peer-mediated interventions.

Group or individual instruction designed to teach learners ways to appropriately and successfully participate in their interactions with others.

Instruction or intervention in which technology is the central feature the technology is specifically designed or employed to support the learning or performance of a behavior or skill for the learner.