Trial reportPediatrics2019
A Pivotal Response Treatment Package for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: An RCT.
Trial report in Pediatrics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02037022 (Pivotal Response Treatment Package for Young Children With Autism), which is not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Pivotal Response Treatment Package for Young Children With Autism
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Use of the Clinical Global Impressions Scale in Psychosocial Interventions for Autism Characteristics: A Systematic Review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Pooled it
- 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
- The Effect of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions and Aided AAC on the Language Development of Children on the Autism Spectrum with Minimal Speech: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Examining the Transition from Single Words to Phrase Speech in Children with ASD: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled 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
- 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
- Parent-Mediated Interventions for Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The effectiveness of parent training for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses.BMC psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Placebo response in pharmacological and dietary supplement trials of autism spectrum disorder (ASD): systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Molecular autism · 2020Pooled it
- Adherence and Opportunity Frequency as Predictors of Communication Outcomes from Pivotal Response Parent Training.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- The Effect of Teaching Initiations on the Communication of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Trial
- Pivotal Response Treatment for School-Aged Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
- Enhancing Social Initiations Using Naturalistic Behavioral Intervention: Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial for Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Functional Communication Training via Telehealth for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- 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
- Comparing Intervention Outcome Measures Across Clinic and Home for Young Autistic Children: Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC) and Measure of NDBI Strategy Implementation-Caregiver Change (MONSI-CC).Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Mapping the landscape of early childhood development services: a global scoping review.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Beyond Intervention: A Scoping Review of Parent Engagement in Parent-Implemented Intervention for Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Child Quality of Life as an Outcome Following Pivotal Response Treatment: Findings From Four Randomized Controlled Trials With Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Does baseline language ability predict response to early intervention for toddlers with early signs of autism? Evidence from a caregiver-mediated program.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectivesOur aim was to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a pivotal response treatment package (PRT-P) consisting of parent training and clinician-delivered in-home intervention on the communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder.
methodsForty-eight children with autism spectrum disorder and significant language delay between 2 and 5 years old were randomly assigned to PRT-P (
resultsAnalysis of child utterances during the structured laboratory observation revealed that, compared with the delayed treatment group, children in PRT-P demonstrated greater improvement in frequency of functional utterances (F
conclusionsThis is the first 24-week randomized controlled trial in which community treatment is compared with the combination of parent training and clinician-delivered PRT. PRT-P was effective for improving child social communication skills and for teaching parents to implement PRT. Additional research will be needed to understand the optimal combination of treatment settings, intensity, and duration, and to identify child and parent characteristics associated with treatment response.
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