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Empowering Caregivers to Promote Child Independence

NCT07059364 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2025-10-10

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Summary

The proposed study aims to address the unique needs of caregivers and their adolescent children with profound autism. The constant supervision and 24/7 care that caregivers need to provide their children to ensure their health and safety often leaves little time for household duties, self-care routines, and spending time with family and friends. Investigators aim to alleviate the vigilant monitoring provided by caregivers for brief periods by increasing their child's independent, sustained engagement in meaningful activities and improving the quality of life for both adolescents with profound autism and their caregivers. Caregivers will either receive training to use picture-based activity schedules or continue with their usual routines. After the study, caregivers who continued their usual routines will also be offered the training. Investigators will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the training based on the children's performance, pre- and post-study improvement ratings, and caregiver feedback.

Conditions

  • Profound Autism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CAST Treatment

Activity completion will be evaluated based the number of consecutive and total activities completed, duration of sustained activity engagement, prompts or redirection, and adult proximity at baseline and post-trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Autism Science Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Nebraska

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alice Shillingsburg, PhD, BCBA-D · University of Nebraska

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-15
Primary Completion
2026-03-31
Completion
2026-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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