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JASP Development grant – Social Communication and Symbolic Play Intervention for Preschoolers with Autism – Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324B070056 Award Period: 07/01/2007-06/30/2011 Purpose: Deficits in social-communicative functioning are core diagnostic features of autism. Joint attention and symbolic play are theoretically posited to be pivotal skills …

Purpose: This project aims to develop and test an adapted professional development (PD) model to be used with the Advancing Social-communication And Play (ASAP) intervention, which is an intervention that focuses on improving early social communication and play skills of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research suggests that current PD models may not sufficiently improve …

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop and pilot test a web-based enhancement of the classroom-based Advancing Social-Communication and Play (ASAP) intervention to support collaborations between home and school. ASAP was designed to develop joint attention (i.e., shared attention toward an object or event with another person) and symbolic play (i.e., pretending), both pivotal skills for …

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to conduct a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of the recently developed ASAP intervention. The major goals of the project included investigating whether children who experienced the intervention, when compared to those who did not, demonstrated greater gains in the proximal child outcomes of social-communication and …

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JASP Development grant – Social Communication and Symbolic Play Intervention for Preschoolers with Autism – Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324B070056 Award Period: 07/01/2007-06/30/2011

PACT Development grant – Promoting ASAP Collaboration through Technology (PACT): An Intervention Modification to Enhance Home-School Collaboration – Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324A170151 Award Period: 07/01/2016-06/30/2020

ASAP Efficacy Study grant – Advancing Social-communication And Play (ASAP): An Intervention Program for Preschoolers with Autism – Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324A110256 Award Period: 07/01/2011-06/30/2015