Below are some review articles which may be helpful if you are trying to make a medical argument for ABA, speech, OT, or social skills.  If no links are available, you can look up the abstracts in pubmed, often there is an e-mail address for a contact author.  You can request the article from the author, most authors will reply within a day or two.

General Autism, Government Reports and Guidelines

1.  Mental Health, A Report of the Surgeon General

2. New York State Department of Health.

Early Intervention Program:  clinical practice guideline: report of the recommendations. (1999).

3. National Academy of Sciences.  Educating Children with Autism.

Commission of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 2001.

4. Myers SM, Johnson, CP.

Management of children with autism spectrum disorders.  Pediatrics.  2007; 120:  1162-1182.

5. National Standards Project, Finding and Conclusions

Intensive Early Intervention using Behavior Therapy is the Single Most Widely Accepted Treatment for Autism

Original Studies and Review Articles

1. Granpeesheh D et al.

Applied Behavior Analytic Interventions for children with autism:  a description and review of treatment research.  Ann Clin Psychaitry, 2009 Jul-Sep:  21 (3): 162-73.

2. Sallows GO, and Graupner TD.

Intensive behavioral treatment  for children with autism:  four year outcome and predictors.   Am J Ment Retard., 2005;  110:  417-438.

3. Cohen H. et al.,

Early intensive behavioral treatment:  replication of the UCLA Model in a community setting.  J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2006; 2: 145-157.

4. Eikeseth S.

Outcome of comprehensive psychoeducational interventions for young children with autism.  Res Dev Disabil. 2009;30:158-178.

5. Rogers SJ, Vismara LA.

Evidence-based comprehensive treatments for early autism. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008;37:8-38..

6. Eikeseth S, Smith T, Jahr E, et al.

Outcome for children with autism who began intensive behavioral treatment between ages 4 and 7: a comparison controlled study. Behav Modif. 2007;31:264-278

7. Spreckley, M and Boyd, R.

Efficacy of applied behavioral intervention in preschool children with autism for improving cognitive, language and adaptive behavior:  a systematic review and meta-analysis.  J Pediatr, 2009 Mar: 154(3): 338-44.

8. Foxx, R.

Applied behavior analysis treatment of autism:  the state of the art, Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am, 2008 Oct; 17(4): 821-34, ix.

Adolescents for Intense Behavioral Therapy

1. Miller, N. & Neuringer, A.

Reinforcing Variabity in Adolescents with Autism

2. McEntee, J.E. & Saunders, R.R.

A Response-restriction Analysis of  Stereotype in Adolescents with Mental Retardation: Implication for Applied Behavior Analysis.

OT/Sensory Integration

1. Fazlioglu, Y. and Baran, G.

A sensory intergration therapy program on sensory problems for children with autism.  Percept Mot Skills, 2008 Apr; 106(2):415-22.

Group Language Therapy and Social Skills

1. Kasari, C et al.

Joint attention and symbolic play in young children with autism:  a randomized controlled intervention study.  J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 2006 Jun: 47(6): 611-20.

2. Kasari, C et al.

Language outcome in autism:  randomized comparison of joint attention and play interventions.  J Consult Clin Psychol, 2008 Feb; 76 (1): 125-37.

3. Bellini S and Peters, J.

Social skills training for youth with autism spectrum disorder.  Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am, 2008 Oct: 17(4):857-73, x.