Feasibility of a Home-Based Developmental Behavioral Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Underserved Taiwanese Families.
Journal
Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
ISSN
1538-005X
Date Issued
2024-10-29
Author(s)
Cheong, Pou-Leng
Huang, Fang-Yi
Sun, Jia-Ling
Huang, Cheng-Yi
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the feasibility of the home-based parent- mediated intervention Naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (HB-NDBI) in underserved Taiwanese families of children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explore its effects on children's developmental skills and parents' parenting stress. 24 underserved Taiwanese families of children with ASD (mean age = 46.5 months) received 12-week HB-NDBI programs. Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS-2), Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/1.5-5), and Parenting Stress Index (PSI) were administered before and after the HB-NDBI programs. Following the HB-NDBI programs, significant improvements in social cognition, social communication subscales, receptive language subscale, internalizing, externalizing, and total behavioral problems scales of children, and release of parenting stress were observed. This study demonstrated the feasibility of home-based parent-mediated intervention for underserved families in Taiwan. These promising results might facilitate the development of such interventions for underserved families.
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journal article