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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018

Mediating Parent Learning to Promote Social Communication for Toddlers with Autism: Effects from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Hannah H Schertz, Samuel L Odom, Kathleen M Baggett, John H Sideris

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Joint Engagement and Socially Motivated Language in Young Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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  19. Leveraging Mutual Gaze to Facilitate Social Attention in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hannah H SchertzDepartment of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University, 201 N Rose Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA. hschertz@indiana.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3926-2396
Samuel L OdomFrank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina, 105 Smith Level Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Kathleen M BaggettMark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health Georgia State University, 14 Marietta, Room 135, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
John H SiderisFrank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina, 105 Smith Level Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Indiana University Bloomington · USUniversity of Kansas · US

Funding

Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education R324A120291
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate effects of the Joint Attention Mediated Learning (JAML) intervention. Toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) aged 16-30 months (n = 144) were randomized to intervention and community control conditions. Parents, who participated in 32 weekly home-based sessions, followed a mediated learning process to target preverbal social communication outcomes (social visual synchrony, reciprocity, and responding and initiating forms of joint attention) throughout daily interactions. The analysis found post-intervention effects for all outcomes, with all except initiating joint attention sustaining 6 months post-intervention. Findings support the value of very early intervention targeting explicitly social functions of preverbal communication and of promoting active engagement in the learning process for both toddlers and parents.

Indexed as

CommunicationLearningSocial BehaviorAdultAutism Spectrum DisorderChild, PreschoolEarly Intervention, EducationalFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansInfantMaleParentsTreatment OutcomeJoint attentionParent-mediated interventionSocial communicationToddlers

Identifiers

PMID29168087
OpenAlexW2771005576

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