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Group Social ABCs: Early Intervention for Toddlers With Suspected ASD

NCT03499262 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 93

Last updated 2021-07-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Social ABCs is an evidence-based, developmentally informed, caregiver-mediated behavioural intervention for toddlers with suspected or confirmed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It is based on principles of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT, grounded in Applied Behavioural Analysis), and responsive parenting. The two key targets of this program are functional verbal communication and positive caregiver-child affect sharing. This intervention takes place in the context of play and daily routines, and in all contexts is made to be fun.

In both a pilot study and a recently completed randomized control trial, toddlers whose caregivers received training in the Social ABCs intervention showed significant gains in early language development (both responsivity and initiations), increased child smiling (mediated by parent smiling), and a trend toward increased social orienting (one important manifestation of social attention).

In an effort to make the Social ABCs more feasible for community service providers to provide this intervention to higher number families, an abbreviated version of the Social ABCs intervention is being offered in a mixed group/individual format in a clinic setting. The primary goal of this pilot project is to assess feasibility of this abbreviated program in the novel format and setting. The secondary goal is to train clinical service providers to facilitate this intervention, thus introducing the program into community practice.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group Social ABCs

Social ABCs coach will facilitate the intervention to small groups of parents in a clinic setting, rather than the family's home. This new format allows the program to be completed in 6 weeks, versus the current 12-week model, and also offers the potential benefit of creating a parent support network within the program. Parents will still get live, one-on-one coaching for strategies to use with their child over the course of the program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jessica A Brian, PhD · Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Months
Max Age
36 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-26
Primary Completion
2020-12-23
Completion
2020-12-23

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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