Publications by authors named "Maranda Jones"
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- Caregiver-mediated early interventions help caregivers use specific strategies to enhance communication skills in young autistic children.
- A clinical trial aimed to identify which strategies were most effective for improving both short-term and long-term communication outcomes in these children.
- The study found that caregiver prompts can significantly benefit children's language development, contributing to a better understanding of early intervention's role in enhancing child communication.
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- Caregivers of deaf/hard of hearing infants face tough choices about communication methods, and this research explores their valued advice and influencing factors.
- The study involved 105 caregiver-child pairs with infants aged 12-18 months and highlighted that caregivers often received guidance to use both speech and sign language, valuing input from speech-language pathologists.
- The findings indicate that caregivers prioritize their child's future academic and social success when making decisions about communication methods, suggesting it’s crucial for providers to discuss these impactful factors early on.
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- - The CDC has revised its child development milestones to help monitor language development, specifically looking at expressive vocabulary as a key indicator.
- - A review of the methods used to establish these milestones revealed that the evidence is often conflicting or missing, and the samples studied do not accurately represent U.S. children.
- - The findings underscore the need for more extensive and culturally inclusive research to develop reliable and accurate developmental milestones for expressive vocabulary in U.S. children.
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- The study investigated the effects of a hybrid intervention combining Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) and JASPER on the social communication and language outcomes of young autistic children, involving 120 caregiver-child pairs.
- Results showed that while caregivers from the intervention group utilized strategies more effectively, there were no significant improvements in child outcomes compared to a control group after the intervention period or at a follow-up.
- The findings suggest that despite enhanced caregiver strategy use, the specific intervention did not lead to measurable benefits for children's social communication and language skills, indicating a need for further research in this area.
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- - A new approach combines two autism screening tools, the STAT and SORF, to improve the identification process for toddlers, utilizing the strengths of both measures.
- - The study analyzed data from a diagnostic program, where experts applied the SORF checklist to videos of children's social behaviors recorded by STAT to enhance classification accuracy.
- - Results showed the combined STAT-SORF model achieved a 90% classification rate, suggesting that using multiple tools can help diagnose autism earlier and improve access to interventions.
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- Parent-mediated interventions help parents enhance their autistic children's communication by teaching them language facilitation strategies.
- The study evaluates how various components of these interventions, as well as mothers' learning styles, impact their effectiveness.
- Results indicate that mothers found it easier to use responsive strategies over directive ones, and different learning styles affect how much benefit they gain from the interventions based on their prior use of these strategies.
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- - This study explored caregiver satisfaction with telediagnostic assessments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on its feasibility and acceptability.
- - Twelve families participated in the assessment, which included caregiver interviews and the TELE-ASD-PEDS tool, leading to generally positive feedback but a preference for in-person evaluations due to varying satisfaction levels with the telehealth platform.
- - While caregivers appreciated the convenience and expertise of teleassessments, they highlighted the need for improvements in diagnostic accuracy and information provision, indicating a mixed but overall favorable reception of telediagnostic methods.
Purpose Auditory processing measures have been used in an attempt to understand the relationship between neurological mechanisms and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptomatology in school-age children. The focus of the current study was to understand neural auditory processing in 2- to 3-year-olds with ASD. Method Auditory processing measures (click auditory brainstem responses and speech-evoked frequency-following responses) were hypothesized to differ between typically developing children ( = 18) and children with ASD ( = 18).
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