Understanding the Effects of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: A Project AIM Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: We examined the quality of evidence supporting the effects of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NBDIs) for facilitating change in young children with autism. We also investigated whether effects varied as a function of specific features of the intervention, samples, and outcomes measured. Twenty-seven studies testing the effects of NDBIs were extracted from data collected for the Autism Intervention Meta-analysis (Project AIM), a comprehensive meta-analysis of group design, nonpharmacological intervention studies for children with autism aged 0-8 years. We extracted effect sizes for 454 outcomes from these studies for use in meta-regression analyses testing associations between intervention effects and mean participant chronological age, language age, autism symptomatolo

SUBMITTER: Crank JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862714 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature