PATHWAYS EARLY INTERVENTION PROJECTS
The Pathways projects focus on the efficacy and effectiveness of Pathways Early Autism Intervention (Pathways). Pathways is a parent mediated, naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) that fits the service delivery model for early intervention programs in TX (IDEA part C). Pathways early units focus on coaching parents to facilitate early reciprocal social interaction and mutual gaze.
Rollins et al., (2020) examined the efficacy of Pathways for use in early childhood intervention (ECI) and mutual gaze as a contributor to social development. Seventy-eight families were randomly assigned to one of three 12-week interventions: Pathways, communication, or services-as-usual (SAU). The Pathways/SAU comparison concerned the efficacy of Pathways for ECI, and the Pathways/communication comparison, mutual gaze. The Pathways group made significantly more changes on social measures, communicative synchrony, and adaptive functioning compared with the SAU group and on social measures compared with the communication group. There were no group differences for intentional communication. The results support Pathways as a potential ECI program and mutual gaze as an active ingredient for social and communication development.
Ongoing studies: The purpose of our current study is to evaluate the efficacy of Pathways parent-coaching intervention on (1) improving social, communication, and language skills in children who have difficulties in social attention and communication or are suspected of or diagnosed with autism (2) improving parent stress. We will do this by comparing the Pathways intervention with a parent education intervention. The project provides 24 weeks of intervention and assessments to measure your child’s progress.
The Social Communication Lab is currently enrolling children into our studies. Please contact the Social Communication Lab if you are interested at 972-883-3173 or socialcommlab@utdallas.edu.
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El Laboratorio de Comunicación Social está inscribiendo a niños en nuestro estudios. Si usted está interesado, por favor póngase en contacto con el Laboratorio de Comunicación Social en 972-883-3173 o manda mensaje de correo electronico a socialcommlab@utdallas.edu.
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