Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Parents Get Training to Help Their Children With Autism

CHICAGO (UPI) -- Autistic children whose parents received special training showed significant improvement in verbal and social functioning, U.S. researchers said.
Researchers at Chicago Children's Clinic said the parents in the study received 25 hours of training in Pivotal Response Treatment, an evidence-based behavioral treatment for autism spectrum disorders pioneered more than 30 years ago at the Koegel Autism Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"This study confirms what we have been seeing at our clinic since we began providing Pivotal Response Treatment in 2007," Dr. Robert Daniels, executive director of the Chicago Children's Clinic, said in a statement. "Parents can be trained to be the best clinicians for their children."

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