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Growing, Learning, and Living With Autism (GoriLLA) Group

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Intervention Details

Subject

Other Academic Area

Academic Program

Autism Program

Duration

12 weeks

Grades

1, 2

Personnel

Speech Language Therapist, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist

Intervention Summary

The Growing, Learning, and Living With Autism (GoriLLA) Group is a 12-week, parent-assisted blended intervention program that combines components from Social Thinking and Structured TEACCHing to increase social communication and self-regulation concept knowledge in first and second graders diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their parents. The program includes parent-child large and small group activities targeting social communication and self-regulation, and parents are encouraged to use strategies and vocabulary from the GoriLLA Group at home. The program's key ingredients include the use of the Structured TEACCHing framework, the concrete social vocabulary and strategies of We Thinkers! Volume 1, the self-regulation vocabulary and strategies from the Zones of Regulation, and the use of parent assistance during activities.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on social communication and self-regulation concept knowledge in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Positive effect on parent-assisted intervention in increasing social communication and self-regulation concept knowledge in children with ASD

No effect on generalization of self-regulation and social communication concept knowledge to parent-child interactions

Positive effect on parent-reported usefulness of the intervention in teaching social communication and self-regulation skills to children with ASD

No effect on parent-child interaction behaviors coded on the 3-Box Task

Positive effect on maintenance of concept knowledge at 3 and 6 months follow-up

Source

Brian, B., Laura G., K., Linda R., W. & Sallie W., N. (2019). Efficacy Study of a Social Communication and Self-Regulation Intervention for School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial (ED607066). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED607066.pdf.

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