Research summaries for autism therapy: preschool

definition of preschool: School for children before kindergarten. In the United States preschool typically refers to children between the ages of three and five.
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A Two-year Prospective Follow-up Study of Community-based Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention and Specialist Nursery Provision for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Summarized Nov 1, 2007

Home-based therapy and school-based therapy work equally well to help preschoolers with autism.

This study was designed to test whether preschool aged children with autism do better if they receive therapy at home or at preschool. The study included 44 children in the United Kingdom who received two years of therapy. While this study found that children did the same at home or in preschool, other studies have found that children do better when they receive therapy at home. This study found that the difference in outcome between home and preschool groups was not as large as the difference between individual children, no matter where they received therapy. The authors note that it is important that the children receive therapy from specialists. Read more...

Enhancing Generalized Teaching Strategy Use in Daily Routines by Parents of Children with Autism, Summarized Aug 30, 2007

Parents can be trained to provide speech therapy to their children with autism.

This study looked to see if trained parents would be able to teach preschool aged children with autism to talk. The authors found that parents who were trained to teach speech did teach speech to their children throughout the day and the children made progress in learning to speak. In the case of this study, the parents learned two new ways to teach speech. They taught speech to their children as a part of their daily routine, at home and elsewhere. The authors note that this study should be repeated with more diverse families. Read more...

The Effect of Aided Language Modeling on Symbol Comprehension and Production in 2 Preschoolers with Autism, Summarized Jun 18, 2007

Aided language modeling (ALM) may help preschoolers with autism learn to communicate.

ALM involves teaching children new symbols through play. This study was designed to test whether ALM can help children with autism learn new symbols. The authors studied two preschool-aged children who used few words and found that ALM therapy was able to teach them to use more symbols. The children learned to understand more symbols and to express their needs better using symbols. In general, the children were better at understanding symbols than they were at using symbols. Read more...

The Effectiveness of and Preschooler’s Preferences for Variations of Multiple-Schedule Arrangements, Summarized May 4, 2007

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy works best if plans and rewards are unique to each child.

This study was designed to see what type of ABA treatment works best for preschool-aged children. The study looked to see the best way to use ABA to teach â??normalâ? children good social behavior during school. Each child had a unique learning style. Most children did best if they were given a reward for good behavior. It was harder to teach children by giving them a reward for stopping bad behavior.
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Synonyms for preschool include: pre-K, pre-kindergarten, pre-school
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