School-Age Children With Autism With Limited Expressive Language Skills
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Neurology, Psychiatric, Autism |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Neurology, Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | Any |
| Updated: | 11/22/2018 |
| Start Date: | January 2012 |
| End Date: | December 2013 |
School-Age Children With Autism With Limited Expressive Language Skills: An Intervention Study
This project will address a major challenge to the field of autism research: improving
expressive communication in children with autism who have reached school age but have not
acquired functional spoken language (non-verbal school aged children with autism; NVSACA).
Fifteen children who completed the RO1 ICAN intervention (NCT01018407) at the Kennedy Krieger
site and follow-up testing but continue to have minimal functional spoken language will be
participants in this study. After eligibility is established, participants will be randomly
assigned to a baseline duration of one week, two weeks or three weeks before the start of
active treatment. Once the baseline duration is completed, participants begin active
treatment one hour of intervention three days per week in the participants' school setting.
In month 2, weekly teacher trainings begin. In month 5, weekly parent trainings begin to
improve the child's generalization of skills and teach parents the strategies implemented in
their child's treatment. Post-baseline and post-treatment assessments will be completed in
the lab at a time that is convenient for the participants' families.
expressive communication in children with autism who have reached school age but have not
acquired functional spoken language (non-verbal school aged children with autism; NVSACA).
Fifteen children who completed the RO1 ICAN intervention (NCT01018407) at the Kennedy Krieger
site and follow-up testing but continue to have minimal functional spoken language will be
participants in this study. After eligibility is established, participants will be randomly
assigned to a baseline duration of one week, two weeks or three weeks before the start of
active treatment. Once the baseline duration is completed, participants begin active
treatment one hour of intervention three days per week in the participants' school setting.
In month 2, weekly teacher trainings begin. In month 5, weekly parent trainings begin to
improve the child's generalization of skills and teach parents the strategies implemented in
their child's treatment. Post-baseline and post-treatment assessments will be completed in
the lab at a time that is convenient for the participants' families.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of autism by a licensed psychologist or board certified developmental
pediatrician, or child and adolescent psychiatrist, confirmed by the Autism Diagnostic
Observation Schedule (ADOS; Lord, Rutter, DiLavore, & Risi, 1999)
- Chronological age between 4.0 years and 7 years, 11 months
- Reynell developmental score ≤ 24 months, ADOS A1 score of 2, 3 or 8
- Nonverbal IQ of ≥ 40 (Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R), Roid
& Miller, 2007)
- Children have participated in and completed follow-up testing for the ICAN study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Major medical conditions other than autism (e.g., genetic disorders [e.g., Fragile X,
Down syndrome, tuberous sclerosis], blindness or deafness, and motor disabilities such
as cerebral palsy;
- Uncontrolled seizures;
- Self-injurious behavior or moderate to severe aggression.
- Children in foster care.
- Children who are exposed to < 50% English throughout their typical day.
- Children currently participating in another intervention/treatment study.
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