Early speech therapy intervention in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Heloisa Adhmann Ferreira, Paula Mello Pacheco, Thais Helena Ferreira Santos, Daniela Regina Molini-Avejonas, Heloisa Adhmann Ferreira, Paula Mello Pacheco, Thais Helena Ferreira Santos, Daniela Regina Molini-Avejonas

TL;DR
This study shows that early speech therapy using the DIR/Floortime model improves communication skills in young children with autism.
Contribution
The study demonstrates the effectiveness of DIR/Floortime-based speech therapy in improving social communication in young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Findings
Children showed a statistically significant increase in communicative acts and space occupation.
There was a moderate positive correlation between intentional two-way communication and the number of communicative acts per minute.
Speech therapy based on DIR/Floortime led to consistent improvements in social communication skills.
Abstract
To analyze the results of speech therapy intervention based on the principles of the DIR/Floortime model in early childhood in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. A longitudinal, quantitative, and prospective manner with direct and indirect intervention, whose target population was children up to three years and eleven months of age, with atypical language development associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It led twenty-four speech therapy early intervention sessions based on the DIR Floortime model, in addition to two initial assessment sessions, and two sessions for final assessment. Twenty children completed the research, with an average age of 29 months at the initial assessment and 36 months in the final assessment. Among the children, 90% already had a diagnosis of Infantile Autism (F84.0). Comparing the results of the Pragmatic Profile, There was an average increase of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAutism Spectrum Disorder Research · Family and Disability Support Research · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
