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ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2025

Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.

Brooke Ingersoll, Mya Howard, Devon Oosting, Alice S Carter, Wendy L Stone, Natalie Berger, Allison L Wainer, Emily R Britsch, RISE Research Network

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Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05114538 (Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children With ASD), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05114538 naactive not recruitingnot on this map

Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children With ASD: A Randomized Clinical Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorRush University Medical CenterRan2021 to 2027Enrolled440ConditionsAutism Spectrum DisorderArmsReciprocal Imitation Training
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Brooke IngersollDepartment of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4598-4288
Mya HowardDepartment of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Devon OostingDepartment of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Alice S CarterDepartment of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9861-1560
Wendy L StoneDepartment of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Natalie BergerAutism Assessment, Research, and Treatment Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Allison L WainerAutism Assessment, Research, and Treatment Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Emily R BritschDepartment of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6678-2875
RISE Research Network

Funding

4/4: Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with ASD: A Randomized Clinical TrialR01MH122728 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON · PI CARTER, ALICE S. · 2020 to 2024
$5.0M
1/4: Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with ASD: A Randomized Clinical TrialR01MH122727 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STONE, WENDY L. · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
3/4: Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with ASD: A Randomized Clinical TrialR01MH122726 · NIMH · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI WAINER, ALLISON LEIGH · 2020 to 2024
$3.3M
2/4: Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with ASD: A Randomized Clinical TrialR01MH122725 · NIMH · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI INGERSOLL, BROOKE · 2020 to 2024
$3.3M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early imitation challenges for children with autism are thought to contribute to broader delays in their social communication development. As such, imitation is an important intervention target for young children with and showing early signs of autism, and efforts are underway to disseminate evidence-based imitation interventions into community settings. To our knowledge, there are currently no established imitation assessments that have been validated for use in virtual contexts. This study was designed to examine the reliability and validity of two caregiver-implemented imitation measures delivered with support from a remote virtual assessor. Study participants (177 caregiver-child dyads) were enrolled in a large, multisite study that is examining the effectiveness of a caregiver-implemented intervention delivered through the Part C early intervention (EI) system across four states. Results indicate that the assessments can be administered remotely with strong fidelity, internal reliability, predictive validity, discriminant validity, convergent validity, and sensitivity to change. Stability over time was adequate. These findings suggest that imitation skills can be measured effectively using a remote caregiver-implemented assessment, which provides greater opportunity for virtual clinical trials targeting social communication in young children. CLINICAL

trial registrationThe trial protocol was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05114538).

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CaregiversEarly Intervention, EducationalImitative BehaviorAdultChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleReproducibility of Resultsassessmentautismcaregiver‐implementedimitationvirtual

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PMID39569704
PMCPMC11782728

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