Therapy for infants showing early signs of autism
A major goal of the Early Years program is to improve outcomes for autistic children through earlier diagnosis. Research is already underway at the Autism CRC to identify infants showing early behavioural signs for autism from 12-months of age, and to facilitate the adoption of a behavioural surveillance protocol by community-based primary health-care providers.
This project is run as a parallel stream of research, developing and evaluating therapies that can then be implemented very early in life for infants identified as showing early signs of autism.
iBASIS-VIPP is a ‘prodromal’ intervention, a parent mediated therapy that aims to reduce the long-term disability associated with autism. A full-scale clinical trial of iBASIS-VIPP is being undertaken across dual sites, in Perth and Melbourne, with a sample of infants with the following considerations:
- Sample size is adequately powered to enable definitive conclusions to be drawn regarding the efficacy of this therapy
- Participating infants are determined to be at ‘high likelihood’ for autism due to showing early behavioural signs
Concurrent operations across two sites in Australia also facilitates future trialling of the effectiveness of iBASIS-VIPP – testing whether the expected benefits observed within this efficacy trial will remain when therapy is delivered within local community services – and subsequent translation into community practice.
Reports
- Published 26 Mar 2021
Publications
- Published 20 Sep 2021
- Published 3 Jul 2021
- Published 22 May 2021
- Published 14 Sep 2020
- Published 13 Aug 2020
- Published 19 Jul 2019
- Published 16 Jul 2019
- Published 21 Jun 2019
- Published 7 Mar 2017
- Published 3 Nov 2016
- Published 17 Oct 2016
- Published 22 Jul 2016
- Published 21 Jul 2016
- Published 30 Jun 2016
- Published 31 Jan 2016
Program
Early YearsProject code
1.043RSProject Leader(s)
- Kristelle Hudry, La Trobe University