Intervention Intensity Not Associated With Better Outcomes For Young Children With Autism

More intense early childhood autism interventions are not associated with better developmental outcomes for functioning, according to a meta-analysis that reviewed outcomes for more than 9,000 children under the age of eight years who had received one of four broad intervention types. None of the models evidenced a significant association between intervention amount and intervention effects. The researchers noted that, across the 144 studies included in the analysis, many did not explicitly report data on the daily and cumulative intensity. Many of the interventions were partially or fully mediated by caregivers and then did not explicitly report the . . .