care professionals, and the "obvious" course of treatment for a specific individual at a given time may only in fact be obvious after it has proven to be effective (Smith, Chung, and Vostanis, 1994, p. 551). One of the greatest strengths of behavior analysis is that it allows the therapist to determine the most appropriate individualized treatment course with relative rapidity.
Behavioral Analysis as Opposed to Behavior Modification
Before beginning a description of the ways in which behavioral analysis has been applied to autism, it is important to distinguish it from the older model of treatment of behavioral modification, which has also been used to treat autist
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