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Progressively, in concert with the development of ABA-focused programs (e.g., the Lovaas program), numerous models of child development emerged. This leads clinicians and researchers working with individuals with ASD to introduce aspects of these developmental theories to the care of children with ASD. For example, it has been thought to use interventions based on the principle of ABA interventions but in more naturalistic and developmentally sensitive contexts, using rewards linked to the activity performed by the child instead of rewards independent of the activity, or using materials that the child appreciates. Moreover, professionals have began to focus on certain key skills and knowledge that will enable the emergence of other skills or knowledge later in the development (e.g., a focus can be made in improving joint attention to facilitate the future emergence of language).

As these interventions have evolved, they have increasingly begun to blend developmental theories and interventions with ABA, and thus, the NDBI approaches were bor With the development of these new, more naturalistic approaches, Schreibman and colleagues (2015) have created the term 'Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI) to regroup certain interventions integrating the knowledge provided by the developmental theories in ABA-focused interventions.