@article{17e8dc87aa434baea5de751aca4fa7f6,
title = "Parents{\textquoteright} Adoption of Social Communication Intervention Strategies: Families Including Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Who are Minimally Verbal",
abstract = "Notably absent from the intervention literature are parent training programs targeting school-aged children with autism who have limited communication skills (Tager-Flusberg and Kasari in Autism Res 6:468–478, 2013). Sixty-one children with autism age 5–8 with minimal spontaneous communication received a 6-month social communication intervention including parent training. Parent–child play interactions were coded for parents{\textquoteright} strategy implementation and children{\textquoteright}s time jointly engaged (Adamson et al. in J Autism Dev Disord 39:84–96, 2009). Parents mastered an average of 70 % of the strategies. Further analyses indicated some gains in implementation occurred from mere observation of sessions, while the greatest gains occurred in the first month of active coaching and workshops. Children{\textquoteright}s joint engagement was associated with parents{\textquoteright} implementation success across time demonstrating parents{\textquoteright} implementation was relevant to children{\textquoteright}s social engagement.",
keywords = "Autism, Coaching, Intervention, Minimally verbal, Parent training",
author = "Shire, {Stephanie Y.} and Kelly Goods and Wendy Shih and Charlotte Distefano and Ann Kaiser and Courtney Wright and Pamela Mathy and Rebecca Landa and Connie Kasari",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to acknowledge funding for the study provided by Autism Speaks (PI Kasari: #5666), Characterizing Cognition in Nonverbal Individuals with Autism. In addition, the first author received a Dennis Weatherstone Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Autism Speaks (#7036) as well a Doctoral Foreign Study Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Thank you to the children and families who participated in this study as well as interventionists who provided the services across the three sites. A version of this paper was presented at the 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Seattle Washington and was developed from a master{\textquoteright}s thesis. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1007/s10803-014-2329-x",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "1712--1724",
journal = "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders",
issn = "0162-3257",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}