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NCT Number: NCT04501588

Parent Telehealth Intervention for Children With Autism

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telecoaching/telepractice models are of urgent importance. Given this, parents in the study will receive parent coaching through weekly video calls. To help us understand the best types of telecoaching, we will offer all participants responsive coaching, with half of the participants receiving an additional opportunity to reflect on their own use of language strategies with a therapist using video feedback and the other half receiving responsive coaching as usual, without video feedback. This information is important in helping us to understand the best way to coach parents using a telepractice model so that parents implement the intervention at high fidelity. Furthermore, we will aim to understand how parent learning style may also influence the implementation of these strategies.

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Key information

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder Autism Autistic Disorder Child Development Disorders, Pervasive Mental Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Age range

18 month–48 month

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois, 60208, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Child inclusion criteria include:

  • diagnosis of ASD or showing signs of ASD based on autism screening
  • chronological age of less than 48 months
  • a parent who is willing to learn intervention strategies
  • English as the primary language spoken in the home

Parent inclusion criteria include:

  • Biological Mother

Exclusion criteria

  • Children or parents with additional impairments (e.g., blindness, deafness, genetic syndromes) will be excluded from the study.
  • Fathers or caregivers other than the child's Mother will be excluded from the study.

Treatment and study plan

Responsive training with no video feedback

Behavioral

Parents will receive responsive training, but will not watch themselves on video to reflect on their strategy use.

Other names: No Video Feedback

Responsive training with video feedback

Behavioral

Parents will receive responsive training and watch themselves on video to reflect on their strategy use.

Other names: Video Feedback

Primary outcomes

  1. Parent Use of Language Support Strategies (Mother-child interaction)

    Time frame: Two months after the start of the study

    Mother use of intervention strategies will be measured by transcribing and coding mother behaviors during 12-minute parent-child interactions, using a standard set of toys. The primary dependent variable will be the amount of correct strategy used expressed as a percentage correct. This is the percentage of child communication to which the adult responds correctly (i.e., contingently and within 5 seconds).

Secondary outcomes

  1. MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI) (Child)

    Time frame: Two months after the start of the study

    Parent report of child's expressive vocabulary and prelinguistic communication skills

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Northwestern University

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Registry information

Official study title

Parent Language Intervention for Autism

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Aug 6, 2020
Registry last updated
Jan 10, 2022

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