Can one hour per week of therapy lead to lasting changes in young children with autism?
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Deficits in attention, communication, imitation, and play skills reduce opportunities for children with autism to learn from natural interactive experiences that occur throughout the day. These developmental delays are already present by the time these children reach the toddler period. The current study provided a brief 12 week, 1 hour per week, individualized parent—child education program to eight toddlers newly diagnosed with autism. Parents learned to implement naturalistic therapeutic techniques from the Early Start Denver Model, which fuses developmental- and relationship-based approaches with Applied Behavior Analysis into their ongoing family routines and parent—child play activities. Results demonstrated that parents acquired the strategies by the fifth to sixth hour and children demonstrated sustained change and growth in social communication behaviors. Findings are discussed in relation to providing parents with the necessary tools to engage, communicate with, and teach their young children with autism beginning immediately after the diagnosis.
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- Authors
- Vismara, L. A., Colombi, C., & Rogers, S. J.
- Affiliations
- MIND Institute, Sacramento, USA,
- MIND Institute, Sacramento, USA
- Corresponding author
- Vismara, Laurie A.
- Venue
- Autism
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-115
- ISSN
- 1362-3613 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7005
- PMC
- PMC6992381
- OpenAlex
- W2114208674
- Cited by
- 331
- References
- 50
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- FWCI
- 9.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Autism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH073124)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- toddlers, Early Start Denver Model, parent-child education, parent-mediated intervention, naturalistic intervention, social communication, imitation, play skills, early intervention, brief psychotherapy
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Behavior Therapy, Developmental Disabilities, Child, Preschool, Communication, Education, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Infant, Male, Personality Assessment, Pilot Projects, Social Behavior, Treatment Outcome
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