Efficacy research on video based instruction for children with autism is a promising area for practitioners and researchers. Researchers are successfully using video to teach a variety of social and functional skills. This literature review synthesizes these findings and examines critical features of each of the studies that contribute most to the ways of educators, care givers and others can best employ video to teach young people with autism. While this area of research is expanding, more detailed studies are needed to better describe specific aspects of video based instruction. (Contains 2 tables.)