The Development of Autistic Children Based on Mothers´Response in Autism Behavior Checklist

Federal University of São Paulo

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Autism; Asperger Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Speech Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00725556

Ana Carina Tamanaha

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the process of development of autistic children, in a direct and indirect intervention context from mother´s response in Autism Behavior Checklist.

Full description

Aim: We evaluated the process of development of autistic children, in a direct and indirect intervention context from mother´s response in Autism Behavior Checklist.

Method:

The sample were composed of 11 mothers of children diagnosed with Autism (6) and Asperger Syndrome (5), according to the criteria established by the DSM IVtr (APA, 2002). These children were randomly divided into two groups: Six were receiving both direct and indirect intervention (Therapy Group -TG), and five were receiving exclusively indirect intervention (Orientation Group - OG). We used the Autism Behavior Checklist (Krug et al., 1993), adapted to Portuguese on three occasions: at the beginning, six months later and 12 months later. This is a list of nonadaptive behaviors (57), in the areas: Sensorial, Body and Object Use, Language, Social and Relating.

Enrollment: 11 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Autism or Asperger Syndrome
• Age (children)
• Adherence in the study (at least 70%)

Exclusion criteria

• Others clinical diagnosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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11 participants in 1 patient group

1

Other group

Description:

Speech therapy

Treatment:

Other: Speech Therapy