Therapeutic Intervention Study

Through clinical agreement, it had been stated that autism should be diagnosed as early on as possible so that intervention can be implemented at the youngest age possible. However, there was very little evidence for this statement, indicating that the effect of age at onset of early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) program was not in fact proven (Fernell et al., 2011). With that, there are many issues overall that need to be researched, as well as resolved, before general recommendations can be made about the type of methods that should be used, and the extent to which it needs to be delivered. It has been argued by Fernell et al. (2011), that RCT’s are usually considered the criterion standard for scientific intervention studies, when …show more content…
Fernell et al. (2011) demonstrated that there had been a clinical interview that was to be performed by at least one of the parents, which was done with one of the four medical doctors within the team. With that, there was also clinical observation, as well as physical-development examination that was to be conducted of each child at one of the parental visits. The child’s ASD symptoms were reassessed according to the DSM-IV, and the Vineland adaptive behavior scaled (VABS) was completed by one of the team members at the personal parent interview (Fernell et al., 2011). During the time of T1, most of the children had had a formal developmental/cognitive test that was conducted along with their initial clinical assessment, which had taken place at a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS), or at a neuro-pediatric clinic. Within this time, Fernell et al. (2011) stated that while there was no testing that was performed by the research team, there was an assessment that was made of each child’s “cognitive level”; “learning disability”, “developmental delay” and