Tacch Model

The growing rate of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder has increased. This increase has put pressure on school districts and officials to provide these children with access to effective treatments and services. For several decades, to educate young children with ASD two comprehensive treatment models (CTMs) has been widely utilized. These CTMs are Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication-Handicapped Children (TEACCH) and Learning Experiences: Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Parents (LEAP). The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of LEAP and TEACCH models to not only each other, but to a control model that consisted of a high quality special education programs, which used non-model-specific educational practices. …show more content…
The author’s justification for conducting this study is all prior studies focused on these tow school-based CTMs for children with ASD in individual studies, and no data collected expressed the purpose of comparing these school-based CTMs for children with ASD to each other. The purpose of this study is to compare two CTMs’ LEAP and TEACCH short and long term effects to each other and to a typical special education program. The author is justified in the use of a qualitative approach, by the author’s need to evaluate the comparison between LEAP, TEACCH, and a typical special education program. While there is no clear theoretical basis for this study, the conceptual framework is the result of previous studies that examined the widely used CTMs separately, with no studies directly examining the comparisons of these two CTMs. This study gave rise to two research questions. The conceptual framework and research questions are related, by previous studies with the purpose of examining LEAP and TEACCH effects