“…Further, much of the work evaluating the efficacy of parent-mediated intervention models for children with ASD that aim to capitalize on these associations has involved mostly families of similar backgrounds (Baranek et al, 2015; Roberts & Kaiser, 2011; Rogers et al, 2012; Wetherby et al, 2014). However, many of the same target parent behaviors used in these interventions have had different, or even opposite, associations with later child behaviors in Latino families compared to findings in non-Latino families in the United States (Grau et al, 2015; Halgunseth, Ispa, & Rudy, 2006; Marquis & Baker, 2014; Rodriguez, Davis, Rodriguez, & Bates, 2006), suggesting that targets in parent-mediated interventions designed for non-Latino White families may not always have the same outcomes for Latino families. Of note, these studies have been carried out in typically developing or developmentally disordered populations, yet such research has not been carried out in the Latino ASD population.…”