Intervention Research for Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Contribute to School Education:

This study provides an overview of trends in psychological research on special needs education in Japan. First, the major academic journals of Japan are broadly divided into the two categories " not directly related to disability " and " directly related to disability, " and the amount and content of recent dis-ability-related research （ January 2017 to September 2020） are analyzed. In addition, a review of literature is conducted on trends in intervention research in persons with autism spectrum disorder （ ASD ） and strategies are considered for intervention research to contribute to school education in Japan. This paper examines the following four points: the view of evidence-based practice as one of the ways to optimize the environment of things and humans, the significance of incorporating evidence-based practices into the environment, the direction to connect the evidence to the practice of school education, and the area of evidence required for future school education.