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Melanie Pellecchia; Melissa Maye; Liza Tomczuk; Nicole Zhong; David S. Mandell; Aubyn C. Stahmer – Grantee Submission, 2024
Caregiver-mediated interventions for young autistic children are increasingly considered standard of care. These interventions share two sets of components: strategies to improve children's communication, behavior, and development; and procedures to coach caregivers to implement those strategies. To date, no review has examined how caregiver…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intervention, Caregiver Role
Danika L. Pfeiffer; Rebecca J. Landa – Grantee Submission, 2022
Early child care and education providers provide instruction to diverse learners, including children with developmental delays but often lack training in use of evidence-based instructional strategies to support children's meaningful learning engagement. This preliminary study examined effects of the Early Achievements for Child Care Providers…
Descriptors: Child Care, Professional Development, Generalization, Child Caregivers
Pellecchia, Melanie; Beidas, Rinad S.; Mandell, David S.; Cannuscio, Carolyn C.; Dunst, Carl J.; Stahmer, Aubyn C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background: Parent-mediated early interventions (EI) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can result in significant improvements in children's cognitive ability, social functioning, behavior, and adaptive skills, as well as improvements in parental self-efficacy and treatment engagement. The common component to efficacious parent-…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Empowerment, Coaching (Performance), Early Intervention
Sam, Ann M.; Odom, Samuel L.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Perkins, Yolanda; Cox, Ann W. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a comprehensive program model originally developed by the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder (NPDC). Sixty elementary schools with 486 participants were randomly assigned to an NPDC and services as usual condition (SAU). Significantly greater changes in program…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Evidence Based Practice
Anderson, Cynthia M.; Iovannone, Rose; Smith, Tristram; Levato, Lynne; Martin, Ryan; Brenna, Cavanaugh; Hochheimer, Sam; Wang, Hongyue; Iadarola, Suzannah – Grantee Submission, 2020
To date there are no evidence-based comprehensive interventions for use in school settings. There are numerous barriers to delivery of high-quality interventions in schools that have limited the transfer of research-based interventions to school settings. "Modular Approach to Autism Programing for Schools (MAAPS)" is a framework for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Learning Modules
Engelstad, Anne-Michelle; Holingue, Calliope; Landa, Rebecca J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: Early Achievements for Education Settings (EA-ES) is a teacher-implemented naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) targeting core social communication impairments. The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) was to examine promise of efficacy of this…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication