Caregiver descriptions of joint activity routines with young children with autism spectrum disorder in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Coaching caregivers to deliver Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention (NDBI) strategies to their young child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) could help address the provider capacity barrier in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the behavioral and developmental research that underpins NDBIs is overwhelmingly drawn from high resource settings. Therefore, our understanding of joint activity routines, including play and family routines in which NDBI strategies are embedded, may have limited applicability in low resource, culturally diverse environments. Important questions remain on how to adapt NDBIs to be relevant in the family lives in these settings. This study aimed to elicit descriptions of joint activity routines from caregivers of young children with ASD in South Africa, to u

SUBMITTER: Ramseur K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481954 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature