TY - JOUR

T1 - A Comprehensive Policy Review of Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Policy across the United Kingdom’s Four Nations.

AU - Storey, Catherine

AU - McConnell, Karen

AU - Keenan, Ciara

PY - 2023/6/8

Y1 - 2023/6/8

N2 - This review provides an overview of how the four nations construct policy around supporting autistic people and identifies supports which are considered evidence‐based practice (EBP). Video‐based interventions are a recommended EBP for supporting autistic people and are recommended specifically within the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence autism guidelines. We highlight that EBP's can be difficult to identify and conclude with the recommendation that evidence and gap maps are a valuable tool that should be used to present evidence in an accessible way to policy makers, autistic people and their families and carers.

AB - This review provides an overview of how the four nations construct policy around supporting autistic people and identifies supports which are considered evidence‐based practice (EBP). Video‐based interventions are a recommended EBP for supporting autistic people and are recommended specifically within the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence autism guidelines. We highlight that EBP's can be difficult to identify and conclude with the recommendation that evidence and gap maps are a valuable tool that should be used to present evidence in an accessible way to policy makers, autistic people and their families and carers.

KW - autism

KW - autism policy

KW - evidence and gap map

KW - evidence synthesis

KW - video‐based interventions

U2 - 10.1111/chso.12763

DO - 10.1111/chso.12763

M3 - Article

VL - 38

SP - 995

EP - 1006

JO - Children and Society

JF - Children and Society

IS - 4

ER -