Cited by 221Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchBehavioral and Psychological StudiesChild Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Intervening in infancy: implications for autism spectrum disorders

Open access
Wallace, Katherine S., Rogers, Sally J.·2010·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Abstract

There is a scarcity of empirically validated treatments for infants and toddlers under age 3 years with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), as well as a scarcity of empirical investigation into successful intervention characteristics for this population. Yet early screening efforts are focused on identifying autism risk in children under age 3 years. In order to build ASD interventions for infants and toddlers upon a foundation of evidence‐based characteristics, the current paper presents the results of a systematic literature search and effect size analysis of efficacious interventions for infants and toddlers with other developmental disorders: those who were born prematurely, have developmental impairments, or are at high risk for developmental impairments due to the presence of a biological or familial condition associated with developmental impairments. A review of 32 controlled, high‐quality experimental studies revealed that the most efficacious interventions routinely used a combination of four specific intervention procedures, including (1) parent involvement in intervention, including ongoing parent coaching that focused both on parental responsivity and sensitivity to child cues and on teaching families to provide the infant interventions, (2) individualization to each infant’s developmental profile, (3) focusing on a broad rather than a narrow range of learning targets, and (4) temporal characteristics involving beginning as early as the risk is detected and providing greater intensity and duration of the intervention. These four characteristics of efficacious interventions for infants and toddlers with other developmental challenges likely represent a solid foundation from which researchers and clinicians can build efficacious interventions for infants and toddlers at risk for or affected by ASD.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02308.x

Cites

81 of 81 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. Barrera ME Doucet DA Kitching KJ Early home intervention and socio-emotional development of preterm infants Infant Mental Health Journal 1990 11 142 157
  2. IHDP Enhancing the outcomes of low-birthweight, premature infants Journal of the American Medical Association 1990 263 3035 3042

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Wallace, K. S., & Rogers, S. J.
Affiliations
University of California, Davis (US)
Venue
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-09-24
Volume
51
Issue
12
Pages
1300-1320
ISSN
  • 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7610
OpenAlex
W1642648385
Cited by
221
References
81
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 17
FWCI
1.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 081757-3, R01MH081757)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, early intervention, infants and toddlers, developmental disorders, preterm birth, parental involvement, parent coaching, parental responsiveness, personalized interventions, developmental risk, intervention efficacy
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Child Behavior, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Child, Preschool, Humans, Individuality, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Parents, Risk Factors, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Early Intervention, Educational

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review