Shannon Crowley

TL;DR: This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of group design studies of nonpharmacological early interventions designed for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) found that when study quality indicators were not taken into account, significant positive effects were found for behavioral, developmental, and NDBI intervention types.

TL;DR: Evidence is found that intervention can facilitate improvements in language outcomes for young children with autism, and effects were largest for expressive and composite language outcomes, for children with initially higher language abilities, and for interventions implemented by clinicians or by caregivers and clinicians combined.

TL;DR: Improved reporting practices are necessary for researcher transparency and would enable more robust examination of the effects of COIs on research outcomes, and Conflicts of interest are prevalent but under-reported in autism early intervention research.

TL;DR: The authors examined the quality of evidence supporting the effects of Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions (NBDIs) for facilitating change in young children with autism and investigated whether effects varied as a function of specific features of the intervention, samples, and outcomes measured.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta‐analysis that quantifies the extent to which several of these candidate constructs are associated with social functioning finds that effect sizes were significantly larger in the ASD group and decreased as mental age increased.