This project is analyzing videos of parent-child interaction for JAML participants to explore associations between child social communication outcomes and parents' application of mediated learning principles in their interactions with their toddlers who are newly identified with autism.
Schertz, H. H., Principal Investigator (2019-2020). Assessment of Parent Mediation of Social Communication for Toddlers with Autism. Indiana University Social Sciences Research Funding Program. $29,188 awarded.
This planning grant is developing a framework of support for early intervention professionals who will guide parents of toddlers with autism to mediate their children’s learning in the core area of challenge, social communication. Manuals, assessments, and supporting materials are being developed for four focus areas: social reciprocity, joint attention, socially interactive play, and positive social behavior. Testing of the framework is underway in a three-phase iterative research study.
Schertz, H. H., Principal Investigator & Baggett, K.M., Co-PI (2018-2021). Supporting early interventionists of toddlers with autism to build family capacity. # R324A180083. U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research. $1,399,772 awarded.
This randomized controlled trial tested JAML’s efficacy in a study of 144 toddlers with autism. Results are reported in Schertz, Odom, Baggett, and Sideris (2018).
Schertz, H. H., Principal Investigator; Odom, S. L., Co-principal Investigator; & Baggett, K. M., Co-principal Investigator (2012-2017). Joint Attention Mediated Learning intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorders and their families: A three-site early intervention research project, #R324A120291. U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research. $3,499,710 awarded.
Two research studies were conducted. In the first, the Joint Attention Mediated Learning (JAML) intervention model was refined and tested in 12 cross-site single-case design iterations. The second study tested the revised JAML model in a small randomized controlled study of 24 parent-toddler dyads in three sites. Results are reported in Schertz, Odom, and Baggett (2013).
Schertz, H. H., Principal Investigator; Odom, S., Co-principal Investigator; & K. M. Baggett, Co-principal Investigator (2007-2010). Promoting early social-communicative competency in toddlers with autism:A multi-site intervention research grant. Autism Speaks Foundation, #2007/1735. $968,145 awarded.