Where do fads come from? / Stuart Vyse
Sifting sound practice from snake oil / Judith E. Favell
The nature and value of empirically validated interventions / Crighton Newsom and Christine A. Hovanitz
The appeal of unvalidated treatments / Tristram Smith
Historial approaches to developmental disabilities / John W. Jacobson, James A. Mulick, and Richard M. Foxx
Classification versus labeling / Susan Vig
The self-esteem fallacy / Richard M. Foxx and Constance E. Roland
The delusion of full inclusion / Devery R. Mock and James M. Kauffman
Credulity and gullibility among service providers : an attempt to understand why snake oil sells / Stephen Greenspan
Developmental disabilities and the paranormal / John W. Jacobson and James A. Mulick
Fads in general education : fad, fraud, and folly / Martin A. Kozloff
Fads in special education : an overview / Thomas Zane
The neutralization of special education / William L. Heward and Susan M. Silvestri
Fads in speech-language pathology / Mareile Koenig and Cheryl Gunter
Autism : a late 20th century fad magnet / Bernard Metz, James A. Mulick, and Eric M. Butter
Helping parents separate the wheat from the chaff : putting autism treatments to the test / Shannon Kay and Stuart Vyse
Severe aggressive and self-destructive behavior : mentalistic attribution / Steve Holburn
Severe aggressive and self-destructive behavior : the myth of the nonaversive treatment of severe behavior / Richard M. Foxx
Person-centered planning : a faux fixe in the service of humanism? / J. Grayson Osborne
Sensory integrative therapy / Tristram Smith, Daniel W. Mruzek, and Dennis Mozingo
Auditory integration training : a critical review / Oliver C. Mudford and Chris Cullen
Facilitated communication : the ultimate fad treatment / John W. Jacobson, Richard M. Foxx, and James A. Mulick
Positive behavior support : a paternalistic utopian delusion / James A. Mulick and Eric M. Butter
Nonaversive treatment / Crighton Newsom and Kimberly A. Kroeger
Gentle teaching / Chris Cullen and Oliver C. Mudford
Ethical dilemmas and the most effective therapies / Peter Sturmey
Judicial remedies for fads and fraudulent treatment practices / Edmond Tiryak
The National Institutes of Health consensus development conference on the treatment of destructive behaviors : a study in professional politics / Richard M. Foxx
Afterword / James M. Johnston.
