The original ICDL CPG was published in 2000. A new updated version, the CPG2, is expected to be released in early 2027. While the below guidelines are somewhat dated, there is still excellent and pertinent information in the original ICDL CPG.
ICDL Clinical Practice Guidelines
Part One: Overview and Recommendations
Chapter 1: Introduction by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
Chapter 2: The Need for a Comprehensive Individualized Approach
Chapter 3: Overview and Recommendations
Chapter 4: Principles of Clinical Practice for Assessment and Intervention by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Part Two: Language and Communication
Chapter 5: Speech, Language, and Communicating Assessment and Intervention for Children by Sima Gerber, Ph.D., C.C.C.- S.L.P and Barry Prizant, Ph.D., C.C.C.-S.L.P.
Chapter 6: Auditory Disorders in Children with Developmental Learning Disorders by Jane R. Madell, Ph.D.
Chapter 7: Children with Special Needs in Bilingual Families: A Developmental Approach to Language Recommendations by Robert H. Wharton, M.D., Karen Levine, Ph.D., Elizabeth Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Joshua Breslau, Ph.D., and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
Part Three: Motor and Sensory Functioning
Chapter 8: Assessment of Sensory Processing, Praxis and Motor Performance by G. Gordon Williamson, Ph.D., O.T.R., Marie E. Anzalone, Sc.D., O.T.R., and Barbara E. Hanft, M.A., O.T.R.
Chapter 9: Screening, Evaluating and Assessing Children with Sensorimotor Concerns and Linking Findings to Intervention Planning: Strategies for Pediatric Occupational and Physical Therapists by Toby M. Long, Ph.D., P.T., and Kirsten M. Sippel, M.P.P., P.T.
Chapter 10: A Integrated Intervention Approach to Treating Infants and Young Children with Regulatory, Sensory Processing and Interactional Problems by Georgia A. DeGangi, Ph.D., O.T,R., F.A.O.T.A
Chapter 11: An Ophthalmologist Approach to Visual Processing/Learning Differences by Harold Paul Koller, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.A.O.
Part Four: Home, School, and Family Approaches (Since this is a large file, downloads for each chapter are also provided.)
Chapter 12: Developmentally Appropriate Interactions and Practices by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Chapter 13: Educational Guidelines for Preschool Children with Disorders in Relating and Communicating by Serena Wieder, Ph.D. and Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.
Chapter 14: The Action is in the Interaction: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Work with Parents of Children with Developmental Disorders by Rebecca Shahmoon-Shanok, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Part Five: Clinical Evaluation Process: Classification and Biomedical Evaluation and Intervention
Chapter 15: Developmentally Based Approach to the Evaluation Process by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Chapter 16: Developmentally Based Approach to the Classification of Infant and Early Childhood Disorders by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., Serena Wieder, Ph.D., and Andrew Zimmerman, M.D.
Chapter 17: Medical Evaluation Of The Child With Autistic Spectrum Disorder by Ricki G. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H.
Chapter 18: Neuropsychological Assessment of Developmental and Learning Disorders by Lois M. Black, Ph.D., and Gerry A. Stefanatos, D.Phil.
Chapter 19: The Miller Method®: A Cognitive-Developmental Systems Approach for Children with Body Organization, Social, and Communication Issues by Arnold Miller, Ph.D., and Eileen Eller-Miller, M.A., C.C.C.-S.L.P.
Chapter 20: Visual-Spatial Thinking by Harry Wachs, O.D.
Chapter 21: Sensory-Motor Integration: A Perceptual-Motor Approach for Enhancing Motor Planning in Children with Special Needs by Parviz Youssefi, Ed.D, and Arousha Youssefi
Chapter 22: Mediated Learning Experience, Instrumental Enrichment, and the Learning Propensity Assessment Device by Reuven Feuerstein, Ph.D.
Chapter 23: Speech-Language Development: Oral and Written by Patricia Lindamood, M.S., C.C.C.-S.L.P., and Phyllis Lindamood
Chapter 24:Technologies to Facilitate Language, Sensory Processing, and Motor-Planning Capacities by Patricia Lindamood, M.S., C.C.C.-S.L.P.
Chapter 25: Imagery and the Language Processing Spectrum by Nanci Bell, M.A.
Chapter 26: Adolescents and Adults with Special Needs: The Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-Based (DIR) Approach to Intervention by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., and Henry Mann, M.D.
Part Seven: Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Foundations for Clinical Practice
Chapter 27: Neural Mechanisms in Autism by Andrew W. Zimmerman, M.D., and Barry Gordon, Ph.D., M.D.
Chapter 28: Autism as a Disorder of Complex Information Processing by Nancy J. Minshew, M.D., and Gerald Goldstein, M.D.
Chapter 29: Autism: Clinical Features and Neurobiological Observations by Margaret L. Bauman, M.D.
Chapter 30: The “BOLD” Approach: A Multimodal Format for Understanding Communication and Learning Disorders by Mark Rosenbloom, M.D., and Galina D. Kitchens, M.A.
Part Eight: Functional Developmental Approach to Interventions Research