ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2016
Measuring Changes in Social Communication Behaviors: Preliminary Development of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC).
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 130 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Evaluation of a Novel Intervention for Infants At Risk for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
A Randomised Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of Improvisational Music Therapy for Autistic Children Aged 7 - 11 [Autism-CHIME Trial].
Parent Training for Autistic Toddlers: Development and Preliminary Testing
Who cites it
130 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 223 citations in OpenAlex.
- Rapid Review of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC) Shows It Can Detect Behavioural Changes in Social Communication in Autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Pooled it
- Sensitivity and Expected Change of Commonly Used Social Communication Measures in Longitudinal Research of Young Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Responsivity Intervention Strategies on Prelinguistic and Language Outcomes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Group and Single Case Studies.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for Autism spectrum disorder: an umbrella review.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The link between social communication and mental health from childhood to young adulthood: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Examining Effectiveness and Predictors of Treatment Response of Pivotal Response Treatment in Autism: An Umbrella Review and a Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Placebo response in pharmacological and dietary supplement trials of autism spectrum disorder (ASD): systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Molecular autism · 2020Pooled it
- Beyond intervention into daily life: A systematic review of generalisation following social communication interventions for young children with autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Pooled it
- Assess the Fidelity, Validity and Responsiveness of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC) to Measure Changes in the Social Interactions of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Trial
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- Complex, low-intensity, individualised naturalistic developmental behavioural intervention in toddlers and pre-schoolers with autism spectrum disorder: The multicentre, observer-blind, parallel-group randomised-controlled A-FFIP trial.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Trial
- Teaching Caregivers to Support Social Communication: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial of Autistic Toddlers.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Trial
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training in Public Health Services in Italy.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Trial
- Combined social communication therapy at home and in education for young autistic children in England (PACT-G): a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Caregiver responsiveness as a mechanism to improve social communication in toddlers: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Trial
- Application of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Subgroups of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders who Benefit from Social Skills Training.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
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- Brief Report: Intranasal Ketamine in Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder-Initial Results of a Randomized, Controlled, Crossover, Pilot Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
- Parent utilization of ImPACT intervention strategies is a mediator of proximal then distal social communication outcomes in younger siblings of children with ASD.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Trial
- Effects of pivotal response treatment on reciprocal vocal contingency in a randomized controlled trial of children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Trial
70 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Psychometric properties and initial validity of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC), a measure of treatment-response for social-communication behaviors, are described. The BOSCC coding scheme is applied to 177 video observations of 56 young children with ASD and minimal language abilities. The BOSCC has high to excellent inter-rater and test-retest reliability and shows convergent validity with measures of language and communication skills. The BOSCC Core total demonstrates statistically significant amounts of change over time compared to a no change alternative while the ADOS CSS over the same period of time did not. This work is a first step in the development of a novel outcome measure for social-communication behaviors with applications to clinical trials and longitudinal studies.
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