Early Intervention Child and ASD Toddler Initiative
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The ASD Toddler Initiative promotes the use of evidence-based practices with children birth to 3 who have been diagnosed with, or are at risk for ASD. Interventions are provided in a child's natural setting e.g. their home, community, and within family routines and activities.
RI's technical assistance providers are now working with the second group of 3, EI programs. EBP's are also being shared with EI providers through our ASD Resource Group. The Resource group is made up of at least one staff member from each program who receives additional training so they might serve as a resource to their fellow staff members.
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ASD Initiative Project Goals:
- Develop competence (fidelity) in implementing selected EBPs
- Utilize a coaching model to increase a family's capacity to support their child's development
- Children will have improved outcomes and will experience shorter wait times for screening and diagnosis of ASD
- Effective use of EBP's and data collection to give providers and families a means to measure progress toward child and family outcomes
- Families will increase their knowledgeable about the specific strategies that enhance their child's development and become better advocates for the programming needs of their children
- IFSP teams (which include the family) will modify approaches for the development of skills based on data
This initiative uses focused interventions that:
- Produce specific behavioral/developmental outcomes for a child
- Have been demonstrated as effective in applied research literature
- Can be successfully implemented in educational settings
To be considered an evidence-based practice the NPDC has established the following criteria:
- Two randomized or quasi-experimental design studies,
- Five single subject design studies by three different authors, OR
- A combination of evidence such a one group and three single-subject studies.
Using these criteria, the NPDC has found literature to support the starred (*) EBP's for learners younger than 36 months:
| Antecedent-based interventions | Prompting* |
| Differential reinforcement | Reinforcement* |
| Discrete trial training* | Response interruption/redirection |
| Extinction | Self-management |
| Functional behavior assessment | Social narratives |
| Functional communication training | Social skills training groups |
| Naturalistic interventions* | Speech generating devices |
| Parent-implemented intervention* | Structured work systems* |
| Peer-mediated instruction/intervention | Task analysis |
| Picture Exchange Communication System (TM)* | Time delay* |
| Pivotal response training* | Video modeling |
| Visual supports |
For more information about the ASD Toddler Initiative, visit http://asdtoddler.fpg.unc.edu/
W3C approved.