Randomized Controlled Caregiver Mediated Joint Engagement Intervention for Toddlers with Autism

By Connie Kasari, Amanda Gulsrud, Connie S. Wong, Susan Kwon, Jill J. Locke. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010

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This study aimed to determine if a joint attention intervention would result in greater joint engagement between caregivers and toddlers with autism. The intervention consisted of 24 caregiver-mediated sessions with follow-up 1 year later. Compared to caregivers and toddlers randomized to the waitlist control group the immediate treatment (IT) group made significant improvements in targeted areas of joint engagement. The IT group demonstrated significant improvements with medium to large effect sizes in their responsiveness to joint attention and their diversity of functional play acts after the intervention with maintenance of these skills 1 year post-intervention. These are among the first randomized controlled data to suggest that short-term parent-mediated interventions can have important effects on core impairments in toddlers with autism. Clinical Trials #: NCT00065910.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education

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In Clinical Psychology

1. A. Kaiser
2. Geraldine Dawson
3. Sally J. Rogers
4. Aubyn C. Stahmer
5. Connie Kasari
6. R. Landa
7. Brooke Ingersoll
8. A. Wetherby

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. A. Kaiser
2. Geraldine Dawson
3. Sally J. Rogers
4. Brooke Ingersoll
5. Aubyn C. Stahmer
6. Connie Kasari
7. R. Landa
8. A. Wetherby

In Education

1. A. Kaiser
2. Geraldine Dawson
3. Connie Kasari
4. Brooke Ingersoll
5. M. Flippin
6. E. Crais

Citations in the corpus

• Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015, background): “In the second generation of studies on naturalistic teaching, researchers have tested the effects of these procedures in randomized trials with increasinglymore sophisticated designs (Dawson et al. 2010; Dawson et al. 2012; Kasari et al. 2006, 2010, 2014; Landa et al. 2011; Wetherby et al. 2014).”
• The Need for More Effective Father Involvement in Early Autism Intervention (2011, result): “In the second study (Kasari et al., 2010), results of the effectiveness of mother-implemented intervention on symbolic play skills were mixed.”