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Ole Ivar Løvaas PhD was a Norwegian-American clinical psychologist at UCLA. He is considered to be one of the fathers of applied behavior analysis through his development of the Lovaas technique and was the first to provide evidence that the behavior of autistic children can be modified through teaching. In 1999, the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General described Lovaas's techniques as having been shown to be efficacious at "reducing inappropriate behavior and in increasing communication, learning, and appropriate social behavior" which is based on thirty years of data.
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