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Trial reportAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2025

Infant Achievements Intervention Improves Caregiver Implementation Fidelity and Infant Social Communication Outcomes: A Preliminary Randomized Clinical Trial.

Rebecca J Landa, Rachel Reetzke, Christine Reiner Hess

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Trial report 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 NCT03404505 (Effects of a Short-term Parent Mediated Social Training on Developmental Trajectories in Infants), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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NCT03404505 nacompletednot on this map

Effects of a Short-term Parent Mediated Social Training on Developmental Trajectories in Infants

TypeinterventionalSponsorHugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.Ran2017 to 2021Enrolled38ConditionsYounger Sibling of Child With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Signs of Developmental Delay, Signs of Communication Delay, Signs of Social DelayArmsInfant Achievements, Caregiver Education (CE)
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Rebecca J LandaCenter for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8894-8995
Rachel ReetzkeCenter for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, USA.
Christine Reiner HessCenter for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, USA.

Funding

Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction, Brain and Neurobehavioral Development in AutismP50HD103538 · NICHD · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI Stewart H Mostofsky · 2020 to 2026
$9.9M
Preventive Dyadic Intervention to Enhance Communication Development in At-Risk InfantsR21DC015846 · NIDCD · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI LANDA, REBECCA JEAN · 2017 to 2018
$444k
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research CenterNICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103538NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC015846
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) focused on idiopathic social communication delay (SCD) in the first year of life are rare. We preliminarily tested the efficacy of an 8-week caregiver-implemented intervention for infants with idiopathic SCD. Infants (8-12 months) with SCD were block-randomized with caregivers to the Infant Achievements (IA) (n = 18) or Caregiver Education (CE) (n = 20) group in this assessor-masked RCT. Assessments were completed at baseline, post-intervention, and 8-week follow-up. IA caregivers received reflective, home-based coaching to implement naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) strategies. PRIMARY OUTCOMES: masked ratings of caregiver implementation fidelity, frequency of infant initiation of joint attention (IJA), and percent of coordination of joint engagement (CJE). SECONDARY OUTCOMES: masked researcher-administered and scored Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) language and Visual Reception scaled scores; nonmasked caregiver-reported Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Caregiver Questionnaire (CSBS CQ) Social, Speech, and Symbolic composite scores and McArthur-Bates Communication Development Inventories Words Understood and Produced scores. Prespecified analyses followed an intent-to-treat approach using Generalized Linear Mixed Models for non-normally distributed outcomes and linear mixed-effects models for those with normal distributions. Significant group by time effects favored the IA group relative to the CE group on all primary outcomes at post-intervention (p's ≤ 0.001), and for caregiver fidelity and IJA, at follow-up (≤ 0.03). Significant IA intervention effects were detected on secondary outcomes of nonverbal cognition (MSEL Visual Reception) and CSBS CQ Speech composite at post-intervention (< 0.01) and follow-up (≤ 0.02). IA equips caregivers to learn and generalize the implementation of child-responsive NDBI strategies and propels pre-linguistic social communication advances in SCD infants.

trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03404505.

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Behavior TherapyCaregiversCommunicationSocial Communication DisorderAdultFemaleHumansInfantMaleTreatment Outcomecaregivercommunicationdelayinfantsinterventionrandomized controlled trialsocial

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