Family Outcomes for Families of 4-5-Year-Old Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Have Received Early Childhood Intervention in Australia
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Keen, Deb
Heussler, Helen S
Wicks, Rachelle
Roberts, Jacqueline
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Early childhood intervention (ECI) services for children on the autism spectrum commonly espouse a family-centered approach but outcomes studies often focus solely upon the child. Mothers of 96 children on the spectrum (aged 4-5 years) completed a measure of access to ECI and the Family Outcomes Survey-Revised. Family outcomes after ECI were generally positive, although a notable proportion of mothers rated that their child still did not participate in social, recreational, or religious activities that they would want to (15.6%) and that as parents, they did not know about post-ECI options (14.6%). Family outcomes and perceived helpfulness of ECI did not differ with demographic data with the exception of Accessing the community subscale, which was significantly higher in families with incomes above
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Infants and Young Children
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32
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3
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© 2019 LWW. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Infants & Young Children, 32 (3), p.186-200. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
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Psychology
Special education and disability
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Applied and developmental psychology