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Conventional Intervention Techniques

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In this chapter, I introduce the reader to the different types of conventional intervention approaches used in home-based, community-based and school-based settings. While describing the different techniques, I present various examples. Finally, I present the advantages and the disadvantages of such conventional approaches in Indian setting.

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Lahiri, U. (2020). Conventional Intervention Techniques. In: A Computational View of Autism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40237-2_2

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