Research on early intervention

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Hi All, I am preparing for mediation (DS has Dx ASD) and is looking to support my points with research stating that:
Early intervention is crutial
you can become high function with a starting level low function with suitable approach and vis & versa (ie high to low if wrong approach used).

Thanks for any help you can provide :)

I have very little expertise - am a mother of a girl with GDD - no clinical background. But I think this study meets the gold standard of being a randomised control trial. extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/autism_spectrum_disorders/pdf/dawson_rogers.pdf
There is also somewhere an editorial discussing the results.

Thank you!!

Pipin can I have the reference for the paper you are referring to? Thanks.

And like the OP I would also welcome any input on identifying research papers on early intervention and use of ABA, thanks!

Any references for the paper?

bumping up in the hope Pipin will see

There's the SCaMP report by Southampton university. Again, shows favourable results from EIBI (early intensive behavioural intervention, otherwise known as ABA) in pre-school age children.

Thanks! I am not at the tribunal stage yet or anything but getting prepared as I go along...

Oooh lots of juicy reading. Thank you!!

Thank you so much! This is great!

PipinJo, are you looking for the paper on the Early Start Denver Model?

As I understand it, the ESDM is ABA. Their practice differs a bit from Lovaas style discrete trials in that they don't use tangible reinforcers right away and their sessions are a bit more play based. You would need play-based for kids under 36 months!

here is a link

The key to tribunals is to make sure they understand how control groups work! I am amazed at the number of professionals who will read all the literature above and then just say "Those are the kids who would have done well anyway." I want to beat my head against the wall and wonder how people who don't understand basic experimental design manage to find positions of power in the LEA.

You actually meet people who attempt to read the literature?!