Evidence-Based Autism Treatment Now “the Rule” in California Regional Centers

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

As of August 1, 2009, autism treatment provided by California's 21 state-funded regional centers must be limited to evidence-based practices. The regional centers are prohibited from providing or funding any experimental treatments that have not been clinically determined or scientifically proven as an effective and safe treatment as determined by the "National Autism Standards Report" released by the National Autism Center. This measure, enacted in response to the state's budget crisis, has provider organizations impaled between two conflicting bills—The Lanterman Act and . . .