Parent Implemented Early Intervention for Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
McConachie, H., & Diggle, T. (2007).
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 13(1), 120-129.
This systematic review investigates the effects of parent-mediated or parent-implemented interventions on a variety of outcomes (e.g., communication, behavior, parent-child interaction) for young children, 1-7 years old, on the autism spectrum.
Nuffield Foundation (United Kingdom)
The data in this systematic review is included in another document which can be found in the Associated Article section below.
Not stated
Studies with concurrent control groups; studies with comparison groups of children (excluding single case experimental designs)
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"The review has suggested, from a small number of studies with and without random treatment allocation, that parent training does work to produce a positive effect on children’s social communication behaviour, parental performance and parent-child interactions.... None of the studies of early intervention yet reported in the autism literature is an adequately designed study of effectiveness" (p. 127).
