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A pilot randomized controlled trial of DIR/Floortime™ parent training intervention for pre-school children with autistic spectrum disorders . This pilot study was designed to test the efficacy of adding home-based Developmental , Individual-Difference , Relationship-Based ( DIR ) /Floortime™ intervention to the routine care of preschool children with autistic spectrum disorder . Measures of functional emotional development and symptom severity were taken . It was found that after the parents added home-based DIR/Floortime™ intervention at an average of 15.2 hours/week for three months , the intervention group made significantly greater gains in all three measures employed in the study : Functional Emotional Assessment Scale ( FEAS ) ( F = 5.1 , p = .031 ) , Childhood Autism Rating Scale ( F = 2.1 , p = .002 ) , and the Functional Emotional Questionnaires ( F = 6.8 , p = .006 ) . This study confirms the positive results obtained by a previous DIR pilot study ( Solomon et al. , 2007 ) .
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Intervention_Educational
parent training intervention
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Outcome_Mental
Functional Emotional Assessment Scale
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Outcome_Mental
Childhood Autism Rating
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Outcome_Mental
Functional Emotional Questionnaires
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Participant_Age
pre-school children
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Participant_Condition
autistic spectrum disorders
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Participant_Condition
autistic spectrum disorder