An Evaluation of a Developmentally-Based Parent Training Program for Children With Autism

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT01400269

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of a parent training program in the treatment of social and communication deficits in children with autism. Specifically, this study will evaluate a developmentally based parent delivered intervention in the community developed by Pacific Autism Center for Education (PACE).

Official Title

An Evaluation of a Developmentally-Based Parent Training Program for Children With Autism

Stanford Investigator(s)

Antonio Hardan, M.D.
Antonio Hardan, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   - meets DSM-IV-TR criteria for an autism spectrum disorder (pervasive developmental
   disorder) on the basis of clinical evaluation and the research diagnostic methods

   - age range between 18 months and 6.11 years

   - male or female in good medical health

   - will be starting PACE parent training program

   - intends on continuing PACE program for a minimum of 12 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

   - medically unstable (e.g., more than one seizure a month)

   - a medical diagnosis that causes autism like symptomology (e.g., Fragile X, Down
   syndrome, Angelman's syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, Rett's disorder)

Intervention(s):

behavioral: Pacific Autism Center for Education (PACE ) developmentally based parent delivered intervention

Not Recruiting

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Christina Ardel, MA
650-736-1235