NIH R01 · 2024
Validation of an outcome measure of early social-communication for young children with ASD
Abstract The majority of validated social-communication measures for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were designed to behaviorally phenotype or diagnose this core symptom domain and not to detect change over time. The lack of validated outcome measures has somewhat stifled intervention research efforts as well as early interventionists’ ability to monitor the effects of their programs on children’s social-communicative outcomes. It has become difficult to sort out whether non-significant treatment effects are a result of truly ineffective interventions, or rather poorly validated measures for this population. We know that the early, foundational social-communication and…
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