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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2024 Jul;28(7):1847-1860.
doi: 10.1177/13623613231213283. Epub 2023 Nov 24.

Characterizing mechanisms of caregiver-mediated naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions for autistic toddlers: A randomized clinical trial

Maranda K Jones  1 , Bailey J Sone  1 , Jeffrey Grauzer  1 , Laura Sudec  1 , Aaron Kaat  1 , Megan Y Roberts  1
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Characterizing mechanisms of caregiver-mediated naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions for autistic toddlers: A randomized clinical trial

Maranda K Jones et al. Autism. 2024 Jul.

Abstract

Caregiver-mediated early interventions support caregivers' use of strategies to improve their young autistic child's communication. In the current clinical trial, we sought to isolate the most effective strategies to improve short-term and long-term child communication outcomes. Results demonstrated how children may benefit from caregiver prompts to facilitate long-term language outcomes. In conclusion, the current study improves our understanding of how early intervention facilitates child communication outcomes.

Keywords: autism spectrum disorders; communication and language; interventions—psychosocial/behavioral.

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Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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CONSORT Chart.
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Joint engagement at post-intervention fully mediated the effect of strategy type on spontaneous directed utterances during the mother-child interaction at follow-up. Note: Strategy Type (Responsive=1). Indirect effect does not equal the product of the a and b path because the a path is represented by the quantile regression coefficient.
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