Systematic reviews of psychosocial interventions for autism: an umbrella review

@article{Seida2009SystematicRO,
  title={Systematic reviews of psychosocial interventions for autism: an umbrella review},
  author={Jennifer Krebs Seida and Maria B. Ospina and Mohammad Karkhaneh and Lisa Hartling and Veronica Smith and Brenda G. Clark},
  journal={Developmental Medicine \& Child Neurology},
  year={2009},
  volume={51},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:39383638}
}
An umbrella review of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for ASD found no consistency in the results of these reviews on how well these interventions were implemented in relation to ASD symptoms.
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