Telepractice Delivery of an Autism Communication Intervention Program to Parent Groups

Abstract

Background: Social communication is a core challenge for children with autism and research confirms that early intervention positively impacts developmental outcomes. Families often experience barriers when accessing early intervention such as service availability, cost, and geographical location. Telepractice intervention has been used effectively with individual families to help overcome service barriers and to assist service access. This research investigated an expanded telepractice approach involving delivery of a manualized communication intervention to groups of parents. The research evaluated parent and child communication outcomes following participation in a telepractice-delivered,..