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Behavioral Intervention

Clinicianless Training in Autism Treatment: An Adaptive Online Parent Education Program

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Ty Vernon
Research Sponsored by University of California, Santa Barbara
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be younger than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up)
Awards & highlights
No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial tests a smartphone app that helps parents of young children with autism learn effective treatment strategies. The app teaches parents how to improve their child's language and social skills using fun, play-based lessons. By making this training available on smartphones, families everywhere can access high-quality autism treatment regardless of where they live or their financial situation.

Eligible Conditions
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Autism
  • Parenting

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up)
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary study objectives
Change from Baseline in Parent Fidelity of Implementation of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks
Secondary study objectives
Change from Baseline in Frequency of Child Vocalizations/Word Use during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.
Change from Baseline in MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI), Level I Short Form (Total Score) at 16 weeks
Change from Baseline in Percentage of Child Positive Affect during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.
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Other study objectives
Change from Baseline in Percentage of Child Eye Contact during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.
Parent Adherence to Treatment and Competence Measure
Scale of Treatment Perceptions (Total Score)

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group
All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Smartphone App without Video Self-Scoring FunctionalityExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
In this condition, after parents video-record their delivery of the intervention, they watch their own video but do not score their performance.
Group II: Smartphone App with Video Self-Scoring FunctionalityExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
In this condition, after parents video-record their delivery of the intervention, they watch their video and are taught to score their own performance/fidelity through question prompts built into the app. When they are finished, the app will offer feedback and follow-up lessons based on the PRT strategies they have not demonstrated consistently.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Smartphone-App Parent Training in Pivotal Response Treatment
2021
N/A
~50

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of California, Santa BarbaraLead Sponsor
30 Previous Clinical Trials
3,007 Total Patients Enrolled
1 Trials studying Autism Spectrum Disorder
40 Patients Enrolled for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Ty VernonPrincipal Investigator - University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
~11 spots leftby Dec 2025