The Autism Society Event and Education Recordings Archive

Communication is a primary deficit in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Practitioners need expertise in communication strategies that promote skill acquisition and decrease challenging behaviors that interfere with learning. This session will demonstrate evidence based practices used to treat communication deficits in ASD and when it’s best to implement the practices. Communication deficits are a primary means of identifying and diagnosing autism.  Communication in autism involves both delay and deviance. Deficits are not only in language but more fundatmentally in communication in any modality. Practitioners who treat communication disorders in individuals with autism must have expertise in instructional strategies that promote language skill acquistion and decrease challenging behaviors that interfere with learning.  This session will compare how normal language development appears versus how autism affects communication and language.  In this session, the evidence based practices of functional communication training, natualistic language intervention, PECS, pivotal respons training, peer mediated instruction and intervention, voice output communication aid (VOCA), video modeling and social narratives will be briefly described and demonstrated how they can be utilized for treating  various communication deficits.

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