Trial of Raupi te Raupo, an early support programme for children with social communication differences.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: social communication differences; signs of autism; Mental Health - Autistic spectrum disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12624000265572
• Lead Sponsor: Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-03-15
• Last Update Posted: 2 September 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1.The child is aged between 1 year 0 months and 5 years 0 months at pre-assessment,
2.The child is showing signs of autism/social communication differences on the Social Attention and Communication Surveillance Tool – Revised (SACS-R; Barbaro et al., 2022),
3.The child does not have a sibling or twin who is already participating in the study
4.The child does not have a genetic condition which is associated with autism-like” characteristics (e.g., Rett Syndrome, Fragile X, 22q deletion),
5.Each participating whanau/family member can commit to 17 sessions of up to one-and-a-half hours across 20 weeks, including weekly sessions without the child present either at home, in a clinic, or via Zoom, replace once a month by home-based sessions with the child present, and
6.The primary whanau/family member speaks sufficient English to understand the requirements of the study and to participate in the coaching sessions,
7.The primary whanau/family member intends to remain in Wellington for the duration of the study (13 months including pre-, post-, and potential follow-up assessments), and
8. The whanau/family do not intend to receive more than 10 hours of autism-specific parent/whanau coaching from a single source for the duration of the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Children who have a clinical diagnosis of autism prior to pre-assessment will not be eligible to participate. Children who are diagnosed in the course of the study, however, will not be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parent Synchrony[Dyadic Communication Measure for Autism Baseline and immediately following support, 24 weeks later]