The findings did not support the widely reported generalisation ' difficulties ' associated with autism .
Research ers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising learned skills across novel context s. Successful generalisation is necessary for an intervention to have benefits in everyday life beyond the original learning environment .
We conducted a systematic review of r and omised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism in order to explore generalisation and its measurement .
Preschool Deployment of Evidence-Based Social Communication Intervention: JASPER in the Classroom
Few research -developed early intervention models have been deployed to and tested in real world preschool programs . In this study , teaching staff implemented a social communication modularized intervention , JASPER , in their daily program . Sixty-six preschool children with autism in twelve classrooms ( 12 teachers ) were r and omized to receive immediate JASPER training ( IT ) or were waitlisted ( WL ) for 3 months with a 1-month follow up . Measures of core deficits ( initiations of joint engagement , joint attention gestures and language , play skills ) and st and ardized cognitive measures were improved for IT over WL children . IT teachers achieved and maintained high fidelity .  Teachers can implement evidence -based interventions with significant improvements in core deficits of their children with ASD
The findings did not support the widely reported generalisation ' difficulties ' associated with autism .
Research ers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising learned skills across novel context s. Successful generalisation is necessary for an intervention to have benefits in everyday life beyond the original learning environment .
We conducted a systematic review of r and omised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism in order to explore generalisation and its measurement .