Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Evidence Table. Therapies for children with ASD
Study
Inclusion/Exclusion Baseline
Description Intervention
Criteria/Population Measures Outcomes
Author:
Intervention:
Inclusion criteria: Overall ratings: Educational/
Probst and Teacher training in ASD • Met DSM-IV criteria for CARS score, mean cognitive/
Leppert, 2008 symptoms, causes, autism
± SD:
academic
Country: assessment, treatment as Exclusion criteria: G1: 39.0 ± 7.0 attainment:
Germany
Practice
well as educational skills
focusing on antecedent
• See Inclusion Criteria
Age, years ± SD:
Educational/
cognitive/
CCBSQ score,
month 9, mean ±
setting:
Academic
interventions, methods of
structured teaching and
10.0 ± 2.1
Mental age: NR
academic
attainment:
SD:
G1: 100.8 ± 16.7
Intervention use of visual supports Gender, n (%):
CCBSQ score, G1/BL: P < 0.05
setting:
School
Enrollment
Three training sessions in Male: 7 (70)
two groups of 5 teachers Female: 3 (30)
each; one month between Race/ethnicity:
mean ± SD:
G1: 106.4 ± 15.5
Harms:
NR
Modifiers:
period:
each session (months NR
NR
NR
1-3)
SES:
Funding: Following group trainings, Maternal education: NR
NR
Author industry
teachers had individual
training sessions in the
Household income: NR
Diagnostic approach:
relationship
disclosures:
classroom for 6 months
(months 4-9)
Referral
Diagnostic tool/method:
NR
Design:
Number of individual
training sessions ± SD:
Previous diagnosis of
autism, as per school
Case series, 6 ± 1.25
records; DSM-IV, CARS
prospective Duration of individual Diagnostic category, n
training sessions, minutes (%):
± SD: 30 ± 13
Assessments:
Autism: 10 (100)
Severe Autism: 6 (66)
Classroom Child Behavior Moderate Autism: 3 (33)
Symptoms Questionnaire Mild Autism: 1 (10)
(CCBSQ) developed by Other characteristics, n
authors, administered at (%):
baseline and the end of Moderate or severe MR: 9
month 9
Groups:
G1: teacher training
Provider:
(90)
Verbal language use:
Never or seldom: 6 (60)
Sometimes: 3 (30)
10 teachers (8 female)
aged 42.0 ± 13.4 in two
special education schools;
each teacher had one
child with ASD in a
classroom of 8 ± 1.2 total
children with MR.
Teachers were trained by
a graduate student who
had competed a 5-day
intensive TEACCHtraining
program
Measure of treatment
fidelity reported:
No
Often: 1 (10)
Probst and Co-interventions held
Leppert, 2008 stable during treatment:
(continued) NR
Concomitant therapies:
NR
N at enrollment:
G1: 10
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