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SUMMARY:Trials of early intervention in autism: what they can tell us abo
 ut developmental process and treatment effectiveness
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DESCRIPTION:The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative 
 Development (LuCiD) continues its seminar series this month with a talk 
 by Professor Jonathan Green\, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiat
 ry at the University of Manchester\, and Consultant Child Psychiatrist a
 t Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.\n\nProfessor Green will discuss 
 trials of early intervention in autism and specifically\, what they can 
 tell us about developmental process and treatment effectiveness. The tal
 k will consider a sequence of studies conducted by his research group in
 to early autism interventions working with parents.  These trials test t
 reatment effectiveness\, but are also designed to illuminate development
 al science in the disorder\, with a combination of random allocation and
  repeated measures follow-up.\n\nThe first trial is an intervention in t
 he first year of the autism prodrome with infants at familial risk.  Thi
 s study has been the first to show a sustained impact of infancy interve
 ntion on subsequent developmental trajectories of autism pre-symptoms. T
 he results also throw some interesting light on possible mechanisms of e
 arly social and language competency in the disorder.\nProfessor Green wi
 ll then discuss a preschool intervention with children diagnosed with au
 tism and its six year post intervention follow-up into middle childhood.
  This larger trial was able to test treatment mechanisms in a way that i
 lluminates the early social dynamics of autism\, and he will argue locat
 es autism more within the normative developmental process than has previ
 ously been considered. The developmental follow-up into middle childhood
  has been the first to show sustained impact of early intervention on re
 ducing subsequent autism symptom trajectories. The potential development
 al and clinical implications of this will be discussed.\n\nProfessor Gre
 en will consider a related study in South Asia and the light it throws o
 n cross-cultural aspects of parenting and autism development.\nThe semin
 ar is part of the LuCiD Seminar Series\, which takes places monthly acro
 ss the North West\, alternating between the University of Manchester\, U
 niversity of Liverpool and Lancaster University. The seminars cover a ra
 nge of topics linked to language acquisition and are open to anyone wish
 ing to attend. Details of upcoming seminars can be found on the LuCiD ev
 ents page. LuCiD is a five year research collaboration that explores how
  children learn to communicate with language.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre C\, Zochonis Building\, Manchester
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