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| Preface | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| General Issues | |
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| Where Do Fads Come From? | |
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| Sifting Sound Practice From Snake Oil | |
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| The Nature and Value of Empirically Validated Interventions | |
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| The Appeal of Unvalidated Treatments | |
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| Historical, Cultural, and Psychological Issues | |
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| Historical Approaches to Developmental Disabilities | |
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| Classification Versus Labeling | |
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| The Self-Esteem Fallacy | |
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| The Delusion of Full Inclusion | |
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| Credulity and Gullibility Among Service Providers: An Attempt to Understand Why Snake Oil Sells | |
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| Developmental Disabilities and the Paranormal | |
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| Field-Specific Issues | |
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| Fads in General Education: Fad, Fraud, and Folly | |
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| Fads in Special Education: An Overview | |
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| The Neutralization of Special Education | |
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| Fads in Speech-Language Pathology | |
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| Disorder- and Symptom-Specific Issues | |
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| Autism: A Late 20th Century Fad Magnet | |
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| Helping Parents Separate the Wheat From the Chaff: Putting Autism Treatments to the Test | |
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| Severe Aggressive and Self-Destructive Behavior: Mentalistic Attribution | |
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| Severe Aggressive and Self-Destructive Behavior: The Myth of the Nonaversive Treatment of Severe Behavior | |
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| Intervention-Specific Issues | |
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| Person-Centered Planning: A Faux Fixe in the Service of Humanism? | |
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| Sensory Integrative Therapy | |
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| Auditory Integration Training: A Critical Review | |
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| Facilitated Communication: The Ultimate Fad Treatment | |
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| Positive Behavior Support: A Paternalistic Utopian Delusion | |
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| Nonaversive Treatment | |
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| Gentle Teaching | |
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| Ethical, Legal and Political Concerns | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas and the Most Effective Therapies | |
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| Judicial Remedies for Fads and Fraudulent Treatment Practices | |
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| The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on the Treatment of Destructive Behaviors: A Study in Professional Politics | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |