Evaluating Parent Delivered Interventions for Children With Autism

Stanford University104 enrolled

Overview

The investigators will assess the efficacy of parent delivered interventions in the treatment of social and communication deficits in children with autism. By collecting information about parent and child functioning before and after intervention, the investigators will be able to determine whether the intervention is effective in improving child social communication and reducing parent stress.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

104

Conditions

Autistic Disorder Developmental Disabilities

Interventions

Pivotal Response Training (PRT)BEHAVIORAL

The behaviorally-based intervention is a treatment model that uses the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (Koegel, Openden, Fredeen, \& Koegel, 2006) to increase children's adaptive behaviors and decrease maladaptive behaviors.

PACE TherapyBEHAVIORAL

The developmentally based intervention is grounded in a development theory, that focuses on child-directed interactions with warm and caring individuals that aid in acquiring missed developmental and functional milestones.

PACE and PRT HybridBEHAVIORAL

The hybrid based treatment has an eclectic approach that incorporates both systematic (behaviorally-based) and affect-based learning (developmentally-based)that focuses on increasing children's skill development (http://www.pacificautism.org).

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 MonthsMax age: 17 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria for autism participants: * Children between the ages of 1.6 and 17.11 years of age * Males and females * Diagnosis of autism based on DSM-IV-TR criteria, an expert clinical evaluation, and ADOS or ADI-R if needed * Receiving or will receive a parent delivered intervention to alleviate symptoms related to their diagnosis of autistic disorder * Have a care provider that will reliably bring subjects to their chosen intervention and clinic visits, and is trustworthy to provide accurate accounts of services provided to the subject Inclusion Criteria for developmentally delayed participants: * Will have an age range between 1.6 and 17.11 years of age * Males or females * Diagnosis of a developmental delay or disorder based on DSM-IV-TR, ICD-10, and an expert clinical evaluation * Have historical evidence of significant abnormal developmental milestones as determined by neurological history * Receiving or will receive a parent delivered intervention * Have a care provider that will reliably bring subjects to their chosen intervention and clinic visits, and is trustworthy to provide accurate accounts of services provided to the subject Exclusion Criteria for autism participants: * Is medically unstable (e.g., more than one seizure a month) * Have a medical diagnosis that causes autism like symptomology (e.g., Fragile X, Down syndrome, Angelman's syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, Rett's disorder) Exclusion Criteria for developmentally delayed subjects: * Is medically unstable (e.g., more than one seizure a month) * Has a diagnosis of ASD

Locations (1)

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California, United States