Children and Students With an Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention Report: Pivotal Response Training
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2016).
Princeton (NJ): What Works Clearinghouse, 1-41.
This systematic review investigates the effects of pivotal response treatment on communication and language in children and young adults, 18-months to 21-years-old, on the autism spectrum.
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
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1990-August 2015
Experimental study designs; quasi-experimental study designs
3
Pivotal response treatment had "no discernible effects on communication/language competencies for children and students" (p. 1) on the autism spectrum.
