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CONTEXT-BASED AUTISM INFORMATION: Three B-E-D Intervention Models & Differing Autism Community Philosophies
THRESHOLD's "Make Your B-E-D Model So your can live, work and cope in it" Advancing Autism Information page links below are designed to offer new family and novice service providers a fairly complete meta-model of the three main intervention models so you can begin to use a Person-Focused individualized planm using a Family-Centered choice options, in an Autism community-based approach. This is the bedrock of best Autism practices upon which you can build your foundational model.
But which of the three models should my family, my organization use--which is the best--which can we afford?"
As brand new family and first time service providers search the web, your best bet is to begin to read Autism community texts and meet with peer mentor groups and professsional providers in your city, state, region and nation. However, we often find that some newer parents and some novice and even some seasoned professional who believe in certain approaches may be engaged in very hot debates about the the merits of various models that overwhelm new families. So we have given you a basic map here of your overall intervention options to share why understanding the distinctions and various cost and benefit nature of various methods is an important first step to making a choice for your child. In doing this we have connected with leaders from each of the three models and confirmed that our mapping is accurate. We have also made clear that Threshold has chosen a certain part of that map to help us live, work and cope with the mutual impacts of Autism across the full spectrum and over our full lifespans. This transparency is key to ethical knowledge brokerage.
However, from a developmental systems science prespective, we would suggest that arguing about various established ethical and effective Autsim research and practice methods that offer various positive possibilities is not the best use of our time in relation to each other or each of these models. All these models exist because throughful professionals have dedicated their lives and work at university based centers on finding paths to proactive, positive and productive change for people with Autism. Those methods stem from different philosophies and theories and they offer important options in a free society. None of us want to live, work or cope in a world where we lose having these kinds of options to match our selves and our internal and external resources in ways that benefit our children and adults with Autism.
We adult providers need to deeply reflect and critically analyze each of these models in relation to ourselves and our own living and working situations and available resources and then choose which of the three best suits us as adults. For when an adult commits to any of these models and then connects the families and providers who share similar ranges of model approachs, we can avoid wasting time and money arguing and can begin to offer universal best practices through any one of the three models quite readily. Each of the three models, if offered in a coordinated team approach across home/residential, educational/training and community/vocational provider settings for at least a total of 25 up to 40 hours per week year round, can achieve strong growth and greater life span success. Teams that work with conflicting models, no matter what they are risk worst practice outcomes. Both clinical and natural setting Autism research over the last twenty years supports this finding. It is our adult choices to put in the time to learn one of these models well, and to out the effort to negotiate and work together as a team to provide shared model that makes the critical difference, not which of the the models we use.
Use the Links below to read more about each of the three Make Your B-E-D models and a chart to compare and contrast them:
BEHAVIORAL
ECLECTIC
DEVELOPMENTAL
B-E-D CHART
Understanding Autism Webbook. Copyright © 2000-03 by Sharone Lee. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All names, concepts, methods, materials, products and publications are protected by trademark and copyright, and no part of this text or this web page may be reproduced or distributed in any manner, for any purpose, including educational purposes, without express written consent from: THRESHOLD • SALEM, OREGON • 503-375-9462 • sharone@understandingautism.org. Portions of "The Path Out of the Woods" were published in The Net Journal of the Autism Society of Oregon, with the Author's permission in Autism 2001 and Complimentarly Issue 2002.
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