Southampton University study into Intensive and Behavioural therapy |
There's been a lot of news recently about the preliminary report of research conducted by the University of Southampton into the benefits of Behavioural and Intensive Early Intervention approaches for children with autism. The headline was that as the first such study in the UK, after two years of therapy, it helped some children raise their IQ by 40 points, with none regressing.
The press wrote about it at these various links:
Telegraph
The draft report is attached and you can click on a link to it below. More information is available from the Research Autism organisation who sponsored the research and the link to the relevant study on their site is here:
Research Autism and Scamp Study
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| SCAMP_research_report_001.pdf | 144.08 KB |
The full study is out and is
The full study is out and is available from the first author. Also, just a quick note, recently, when I mentioned the SCAmP study to an LEA, the LEA replied to me saying that they were "going with Phil Reed's study" demonstrating that 15 hours were sufficent.
Just a thought,
Fran