Cutting edge autism research
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 15th February 2010
at 13:54
Thanks, Zoe! Do you by any chance have a link to the study so we can look at it in more detail?
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 16th February 2010
at 11:15
Many thanks! Are you involved with RDI Connect? If so, what do you work on with them?
For anyone who's interested, here's a direct link to the PDF:http://www.springerlink.com/content/3210551w36862740/fulltext.pdf
And here's a direct link to the HTML version of the PDF if you prefer: http://www.springerlink.com/content/3210551w36862740/fulltext.html
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 17th February 2010
at 09:29
I see, that sounds really fascinating. It must be a pretty good programme?
Gosh, your work sounds really exciting!
Today I randomly ended up back on the same site where you sent us to have a look at the study. Was having a peek at 2 other autism studies. It's so great that we can access information so easily through our computers, as opposed to the days when one had to go to the library and find the article and find the magazine!
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 23rd November 2010
at 14:35
Hi Zoe, I've moved this to our new Surveys & Research section. : )
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 24th November 2010
at 11:09
Great!
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 8th February 2011
at 12:05
People reading this discussion might also like to read and join in the "has anyone done RDI?" discussion which you can find here:
http://www.talkaboutautism.org.uk/discussion-forums/autism/education/5345
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Posted by
Zoe
on 12th February 2010
at 20:43
This study shows that parents can make a significant difference to their child's core difficulties (rigid thinking, difficulty managing change) through interactions that focus on joint engagement and joint attention.
There are interventions out there folks that can reduce your child's autism.....unfortunately service providers are not listening. Here is the research:
Kasari, C. et al (2010). Randomized controlled caregiver mediated joint engagement intervention for toddlers with autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010, Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print].
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.
And here is an example of an intervention that focuses on joint attention, joint engagement, co-regulation of social interaction and addressing rigid thinking: www.rdiconnect.com
Zoe