Ole Ivar Lovaas is known for developing and testing the methods of behavioral psychology to help children with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, eventually to be known as Applied Behavioral Analysis or ABA. He is the author of an early influential book on the subject, The Me Book. Dr. Lovaas has long been associated with UCLA.
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O. Ivar Lovaas
Non-autism but related books by Ole Ivar Lovaas.