Trial reportAutism : the international journal of research and practice2019
The impact of implementation support on the use of a social engagement intervention for children with autism in public schools.
Trial report in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Friendship interventions for children with neurodevelopmental needs: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Social engagement and loneliness in school-age autistic girls and boys.Women's health (London, England)Trial
- School-Based Interventions for Increasing Autistic Pupils' Social Inclusion in Mainstream Schools: A Systematic Review.Review journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Review
- Examining the use of implementation science in autism intervention research: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Brief Report: Structured and Unstructured Social Opportunities for Autistic Students in Elementary Educational Settings.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Study protocol for a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial of a team-based implementation strategy to support educators' use of a social engagement intervention.Implementation science : IS · 2025Article
- A Novel Approach to Research Synthesis with the Distillation and Matching Model: Application to the Prevention of Youth Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Social participation for students with special needs in inclusive schools: a scoping review.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Review
- Short report: Examining race, ethnicity, sex, and gender among autistic youth and their educators who participated in school-based research.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Leading the charge in the education sector: development and validation of the School Implementation Leadership Scale (SILS).Implementation science : IS · 2022Article
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- School-Implemented Interventions for Preschool to High School Students with Autism: An Update on Recent Research.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Qualitative Study of Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives on Factors Affecting Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Autism in Elementary Schools.International review of research in developmental disabilities · 2021Article
- Individual and organizational characteristics predicting intervention use for children with autism in schools.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Article
- Comparing a Practice-Based Model with a Research-Based Model of social skills interventions for children with autism in schools.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2019Article
- Understanding Friendship Sex Heterophily and Relational Characteristics to Optimize the Selection of Peer Models for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- Play-based interventions to support social and communication development in autistic children aged 2-8 years: A scoping review.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
- Concordance of multiple informant assessment of school-based social skills intervention and association with child outcomes: Results from a randomized trial.Implementation research and practiceArticle
- Calculating power for multilevel implementation trials in mental health: Meaningful effect sizes, intraclass correlation coefficients, and proportions of variance explained by covariates.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Abstract
Several interventions have demonstrated efficacy in improving social outcomes for children with autism; however, few have been successfully implemented in schools. This study compared two implementation strategies to improve the use of a social engagement intervention for children with autism in public schools. In total, 31 children with autism in grades K-5 and 28 school personnel participated in a randomized controlled trial. Schools were randomized to (1) training in Remaking Recess, a social engagement intervention, or (2) training in Remaking Recess with implementation support. Linear regression with random effects was used to test the intervention effects on implementation fidelity and social outcomes (peer engagement, social network inclusion, and friendship nominations). In both groups, implementation fidelity improved after training but remained low. Children in the Remaking Recess with implementation support condition had significantly higher social network inclusion and received more friendship nominations than children in the Remaking Recess-only condition (p = 0.03). Children in both groups experienced reduced solitary engagement (p < 0.001) and increased joint engagement (p < 0.001). The results suggest that implementation supports may have an effect on outcomes above and beyond the intervention, and that further research is needed into the active intervention mechanisms.
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