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Autistic Children The research in this chapter was in the form of a case study. The study was carried out in order to see if behavioral treatment for dental fear in autistic children was a more humane and positive approach that can be accomplished relatively efficiently. Autism is a disorder in which a person, in this case a child, has many of the following problematic behaviors: impairments in social interaction and difficulty in using nonverbal behaviors, impairments in communication, and/or behavior is repetitive, restricted and stereotyped. The participants in this case study were three autistic boys, two were nine years old, and the third was six years old. All three participants had shown maladaptive behavior towards visits to the dentists office. The dentist visits for the treatment were to take place in an analog office, designed to be very similar to a real office, that was located in the children’s school in order to make the whole process simpler. The treatment plan that was to be used was desensitization, modeling, and positive reinforcement. To judge progress, a 13-step fear of dental examination hierarchy was created, with leaving the car or classroom to go to dental, children, treatment, three, study, participants, office, examination, autistic, step, positive, fear, case, being, analog, able, years, vivo, visits, take, steps, real, order, old, impairments, desensitization, dentists, dentist, brought, behaviors, behavior, within, whole, week, watching, video