The person making the claim carries the burden. When a therapy promises your child recovery, you are not obligated to disprove it — the promiser is obligated to prove it, with evidence that survives scrutiny. Debaters learn this rule first, because without it, the loudest claim wins. Parents deserve the same rule.
Definitions, history, characteristics, and what the “spectrum” really means — cited to the primary literature.
What separates an evidence-based practice from a fad, and how pseudoscience targets worried families.
Standard scores, percentiles, confidence intervals — the vocabulary of the reports you'll be handed, in plain language.