Abstract
The Son-Rise Program is an intensive, child-centered approach to treatment of autism, incorporating strategies to promote child-initiated social interactions. Parent training is an important element of the treatment program, which is intended to be implemented in long-term home-based programs. In the present study, parents of children with autism who participated in two five-day parent-training courses in Son-Rise Program intervention (separated by several months) completed questionnaires and the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist prior to each course. Changes in scores were examined for parents who reported implementing (1) no treatment, (2) low intensity treatment, or (3) high intensity treatment in their homes in the interval between courses. Parents who administered Son-Rise Program intervention reported improvements in communication, sociability, and sensory and cognitive awareness in their children, with greater gains associated with greater hours of treatment per week. This study represents a first step in examining the effects of home-based Son-Rise Programs for children with autism.
Highlights
A variety of treatment approaches have been advanced to improve the social and communicative behavior of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
We examined changes in scores on the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC) [39], which parents completed prior to an initial parent-training program and again several months later, and tracked the number of hours per week, in the interim, that Son-Rise Program (SRP) were implemented in the home
The children in the no SRP group ranged from 36-89 months old, those in the lower intensity group ranged in age from 37-91 months, and those in the high intensity group ranged from 36-88 months
Summary
A variety of treatment approaches have been advanced to improve the social and communicative behavior of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ABA approaches train parents to use adult-guided behavioral teaching techniques with their children at home [11,12,13]. Naturalistic behavioral approaches, such as Pivotal Response Training [3,4,14], emphasize strategies that parents can use to increase the child’s motivation to engage in communication and social interaction in the natural environment, and developmental approaches include parental training in techniques to enhance social interactions and joint attention [5,8,9,15]
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