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New Study Explores Novel Autism Treatments For Very Young Children

ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Researchers at the UC MIND

Institute and the University of Washington, Seattle, have received

Autism Speaks grants to extend their groundbreaking research into

novel, high-impact treatments for very young children.

Sally J. , UC professor of psychiatry and behavioral

sciences, has received a $765,937 three-year grant as part of Autism

Speaks' "Move the Needle" initiative, which seeks to lower the age of

autism diagnosis and expand the delivery of high-quality interventions.

is conducting the work in

collaboration with Annette Estes, research associate professor of

speech and hearing science at the Center for Human Development and

Disability at the University of Washington, Seattle, who received a

similar award.

The funding supports a new study focused

on enhancing the effects of parent-implemented interventions for the

very youngest children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), toddlers

aged 12-30 months.

The study, which began earlier this year

with the enrollment of participants, is being conducted in parallel at

both sites. Building on a previous Autism Speaks study these scientists

carried out last fall, it is developing and testing smart phone

technology, new approaches to child assessment, and increased support

for families, among other innovations, in order to determine the

effects of parent-implemented interventions embedded into the families'

everyday activities.

"Our goal is to increase children's

learning rates and to facilitate their development of language and

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