title: Critical issues in the residential care of people with autism.
abstract: There is an ever-growing need to expand both the number and range of residential services for individuals with autism while developing strategies for assuring the quality of these programs. Future program development will be facilitated by an empirical approach to the critical elements that have been identified throughout the articles in this issue.
authors.affiliation: Division TEACCH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Van Bourgondien
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schopler
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods*; D012931:Social Environment