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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2020

Integrating the Early Start Denver Model into Israeli community autism spectrum disorder preschools: Effectiveness and treatment response predictors.

Yana Sinai-Gavrilov, Tali Gev, Irit Mor-Snir, Giacomo Vivanti, Ofer Golan

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Heterogeneity of Response to Early Start Denver Model: Identifying Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Cognitive Outcomes.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  16. Examining Predictors of Different ABA Treatments: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yana Sinai-GavrilovBar-Ilan University, Israel.
Tali GevBar-Ilan University, Israel.
Irit Mor-SnirThe Association for Children at Risk, Israel.
Giacomo VivantiDrexel University, USA.
Ofer GolanBar-Ilan University, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8760-5691
Bar-Ilan University · ILAssociation for Children at Risk · ILDrexel University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

lay abstractEarly intensive intervention has been shown to significantly affect the development of children with Autism. However, the costly implementation of such interventions limits their wide dissemination in the community. This study examined an integration of a research-supported early intensive intervention model called the Early Start Denver Model into community preschool programs for children with Autism in Israel. Four community preschools implemented the preschool-based Early Start Denver Model and four implemented the existing multidisciplinary developmental intervention which is widely applied in Israeli community preschools for children with autism. Fifty-one children (aged 33-57 months) participated in the study. Twenty-six attended the preschool-based Early Start Denver Model preschools and twenty-five attended the multidisciplinary developmental intervention preschools. Before the intervention began, groups were comparable on children's age and developmental functioning and on families' socio-economic status. Results showed that, compared to the multidisciplinary developmental intervention group, children in the preschool-based Early Start Denver Model treatment group made greater gains on measures of overall cognitive development, language skills, as well as on parent- and teacher-reported adaptive communication and socialization abilities. Children who had lower autism symptom severity, higher adaptive functioning and better language understanding abilities before taking part in the preschool-based Early Start Denver Model program showed greater improvements following it. This study documents the successful implementation of an intensive early intervention program in pre-existing community preschools, underlining the importance of the integration of research-supported intervention programs into community settings.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChildChild, PreschoolCognitionEarly Intervention, EducationalHumansParentsautismclinical trialearly interventionESDMpreschool

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PMID32662280
PMCPMC7543011
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