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In Palestine, children with autism spectrum disorder and their parents face difficulties in receiving needed early intervention and rehabilitation services due to a lack of specialized professionals and centers, as well as cultural, political, geographical, and financial barriers. Parents also face difficulties in raising their children with autism in their homes as they lack knowledge about the disorder and the best interventions that can be used to help these children. Parent telecoaching intervention, or what is called (distance coaching via technology) can help parents and their children with autism. However, no research exists studying the possibility of using this intervention with parents and their children in Palestine and if it can have positive results on both parents and children. The goal of this trial is to learn if parent telecoaching intervention is feasible and acceptable to parents of children with autism in Palestine. It will also learn if this intervention has the potential to improve children's skills and increase parent's self-competency and quality of life. The main questions it aims to answer are: - To what extent and in what ways is providing telecoaching intervention for parents of children with Autism in Palestine possible? - How do parents see telecoaching intervention in terms of suitability, benefits, facilitators, and barriers? - Does telecoaching intervention for parents have the potential to increase children's participation in daily activities that parents consider important? - Does telecoaching intervention have the potential to enhance parents' self-competence and family quality of life? Researchers will compare parent telecoaching intervention to a web-based resource designed to provide parents with general information about autism to see if parent telecoaching intervention works to help children with autism and their parents more than the free autism resources provided on the website. Participants will: - Take a telecoaching intervention (eight sessions over eight weeks, each session lasts one hour) or use the information provided on the website about autism. - Apply the planned strategies with their children during the week and record their work using videos or by filling out a form to be reviewed at the beginning of each session.
This study will be a randomized trial that will examine the impact of a recreational ballet program on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research team are primarily interested in assessing changes in motor skills with secondary objectives focused on the social, psychological, and behavioral effects. The study will aim to collect data from 24 participants with ASD. Participants must be 7-12 years old, have a confirmed diagnosis of ASD, and speak English or Spanish. All participants will be enrolled in a 12 week ballet program. The ballet program is based off the curriculum and structure of Ballet for All Kids, a non-profit organization that has been tailoring ballet classes for children with ASD for over one decade. All research team members and volunteers will be trained in the BFAK program's curriculum and structure. Ballet instruction and all research materials will be provided in both English and Spanish. The research team will randomize the sample into an intervention group and waitlist control. The research team will measure outcomes through validated self-reports that caregivers will complete. For the intervention group, questionnaires will be completed at baseline and throughout the intervention (weeks 4, 8, and 12). For those in the waitlist control group, questionnaires will be completed at baseline, throughout the intervention group's ballet classes, and throughout their own participation in the program. Results of this study will help to determine if how a recreational ballet program can impact the motor, psychological, social, and behavioral skills of a child with ASD, informing the direction of future research and interventions.
Purposes: Establish proof-of-concept for home polysomnography in the assessment of sleep disorders among prepubertal school children with autism and intellectual disabilities combined; To explore the diagnostic yield of polysomnography for these individuals; To examine the feasibility and treatment effect of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for insomnia, focusing on sleep maintenance difficulties, in these children. Method: Single-case experimental design with multiple baselines and with multiple participants, with a focus on feasibility. N=15 prepubertal children, aged 6-12 years, with autism and intellectual disabilities combined, and difficulties in maintaining nighttime sleep. Assessment with home polysomnography + actigraphy. Intervention with ABA, including functional analysis, measurable goals, and behavior modification based on the functional analysis. Outcome measures from actigraphy and sleep diary with multiple data points at baseline and after treatment. Feasibility is examined as adherence to assessment and treatment, as well as in a qualitative study of parental experiences.
In a pilot study, we will validate a so-called autism care location in an inpatient ward. The care location will be adapted for patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and concurrent autism (AN+autism). In order to investigate the effect of a tailored care location for patients with AN + autism, the evaluation will include weight development and changes in nutritional intake, eating disorder and anxiety symptoms. The overall aim is to improve treatment for this specific AN subgroup, that otherwise has a worse prognosis regarding AN recovery.
The purpose of this open label trial is to examine the preliminary effectiveness of a 12-week behavioral intervention program (1 hour/week) to treat insistence on sameness (e.g., difficulty tolerating changes in routine) in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Treatment will be delivered via secure telemedicine platform and consist of a combination of parent-training and child-focused intervention.
This study aims to examine oral structural and functional problems in children with autism.
For this study, the proposed intervention will be noninvasively delivered near infra-red (NIR) light - transcranial Photobiomodulation (tPBM) - to the brains of autistic children. This will occur, twice a week, for 10 weeks. The NIR light is delivered to specific brain areas by Cognilum, a wearable device developed by Jelikalite. The expected outcome is improved focus, improved eye contact, improved speech, improved behavior, and gains in functional skills. Cognilum may impact the clinical practice of treating autism. At the beginning, at five weeks, and at the end of study, the clinician will complete the CARS-2, SRS, CGI, and a caregiver interview; additionally, questionnaires will be administered to caregivers during one of the 1-hour weekly treatment sessions.
The main goal of this study is to investigate anatomo-functional brain abnormalities associated with autism spectrum disorders using a multimodal brain imaging approach, as well as its links to social cognition difficulties measured using eye-tracking
The goal of this observational study is to compare the developmental trajectories of prosocial behaviors and functional network connections in infants and toddlers at high and low risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The main questions it aims to answer are what the differences in prosocial behaviors and related brain network connections between infants/toddlers at high and low risk of ASD are. Participants will receive developmental and social communicational assessments (Griffiths Mental Developmental Scales, Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, The Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile Infant-Toddler Checklist), resting-state EEG and MRI in a natural sleeping state.