Costs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the United Kingdom and the United States

Buescher, Ariane; Cidav, Zuleyha; Knapp, Martín; Mandell, David S.

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.210

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“…[1][2][3] EI is a national priority, as evidenced by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C 4 and the American Academy of Pediatrics 5 recommendation for universal autism screening at age 18 to 24 months. Although a stable diagnosis is possible at 18 to 24 months, 6-8 most children are not diagnosed with ASD until age 4, or later for lower-income, minority, and rural families, [9][10][11] meaning the window of opportunity for EI is missed.…”

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Parent-Implemented Social Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: An RCT

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OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of two 9-month parent-implemented interventions within the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Project. Both individual-ESI, offered 2 or 3 times per week at home or in the community, and group-ESI, offered once per week in a clinic, taught parents how to embed strategies to support social communication throughout everyday activities. METHODS: Participants in the randomized controlled trial included 82 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at 16 to 20 months. Children were matched on pretreatment nonverbal developmental level and pairs were randomly assigned to treatment condition. Child outcomes included measures of social communication, autism symptoms, adaptive behavior, and developmental level. Child outcomes are reported from baseline to the end of the 9-month interventions. RESULTS: Children in individual-ESI showed differential change on a standardized examiner-administered observational measure of social communication, as they improved at a faster rate than children in group-ESI. Individual-ESI also showed differential efficacy on a parent report measure of communication, daily living, and social skills, as they showed improvement or stability, whereas group-ESI led to worsening or no significant change on these skills. Finally, individual-ESI showed differential change on examiner-administered measures of receptive language skills, as children in individual-ESI improved significantly, whereas group-ESI showed no change. CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the efficacy of individual-ESI compared with group-ESI on child outcomes, suggesting the importance of individualized parent coaching in natural environments. The efficacy of a parent-implemented intervention using little professional time has potential for community viability, which is particularly important in light of the lack of main effects on child outcomes of most other parent-implemented interventions.

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“…These organizations promote a range of different explanations for the rise in ASDs, from epigenetic factors to a heavily discredited narrative that links these disorders to routinely administered childhood vaccines (2,3). The trajectory of this public conversation has critical implications for the estimated $236 billion spent annually on research, treatment, and support for the 1 in 68 children diagnosed with this disorder each year (4).…”

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Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media

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2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Social media sites are rapidly becoming one of the most important forums for public deliberation about advocacy issues. However, social scientists have not explained why some advocacy organizations produce social media messages that inspire far-ranging conversation among social media users, whereas the vast majority of them receive little or no attention. I argue that advocacy organizations are more likely to inspire comments from new social media audiences if they create "cultural bridges," or produce messages that combine conversational themes within an advocacy field that are seldom discussed together. I use natural language processing, network analysis, and a social media application to analyze how cultural bridges shaped public discourse about autism spectrum disorders on Facebook over the course of 1.5 years, controlling for various characteristics of advocacy organizations, their social media audiences, and the broader social context in which they interact. I show that organizations that create substantial cultural bridges provoke 2.52 times more comments about their messages from new social media users than those that do not, controlling for these factors. This study thus offers a theory of cultural messaging and public deliberation and computational techniques for text analysis and application-based survey research.computational social science | advocacy organizations | public deliberation | networks | natural language processing

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“…Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition and the lifetime cost of caring for an individual with ASD has been estimated to be as high as $2.5 million [1]. ASD is characterized by both deficits in social communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests [2].…”

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Shakespeare and Autism: A Pilot Study Examining the Treatment Effects and Predictors of Treatment Response of the Hunter Heartbeat Method

Mehling¹,

Tassé²,

Andridge³

2017

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This pilot study was designed to explore the potential impact of participation in the Hunter Heartbeat Method, a drama-based social skills intervention, on the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A sample of 10 children with ASD participated in this study. Children were assessed at three time-points: before the start of the intervention (T1), after 14 weeks of participation (T2) and after 42 weeks of participation (T3). Findings from this pilot study indicated that the Hunter Heartbeat Method (HHM) is an intervention that shows promise in impacting social, communication and facial emotion recognition deficits associated with ASD. We also identified the individual characteristics of the participants who were responders and non-responders to the HHM intervention. The results of these findings are discussed.

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Costs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the United Kingdom and the United States

Cited by 1,024 publications

References 31 publications

Parent-Implemented Social Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: An RCT

Parent-Implemented Social Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: An RCT

Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media

Shakespeare and Autism: A Pilot Study Examining the Treatment Effects and Predictors of Treatment Response of the Hunter Heartbeat Method

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