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Behavioral and Neural Outcomes of a New Executive Function Treatment for Transition-age Youth With ASD
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Flexible Futures and Current standard of care for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Completed, enrolled 68 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of this project is to test the effectiveness of a novel school-based intervention targeting executive function skills, including flexibility and planning, in college-track, transition-age youth with ASD. Evaluating treatment change through behavior and brain activity provides important information on how the treatment works and who will best benefit from it.
Study Details
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Interventions
Flexible Futures is a novel and innovative cognitive-behavioral treatment that directly addresses executive function and self-regulation deficits in ASD. Flexible futures targets flexibility and planning through self-regulatory scripts that are consistently modeled and reinforced. Scripts compensate for the inner speech and organization/integration deficits in ASD, and are practiced repeatedly to achieve automaticity. Content focuses on key functions needed for college success, such as: intrinsic motivation, how to implement skills socially, self-advocacy skills application of flexibility and organization scripts and strategies in the service of a long-term goal, and management of time and priorities.
Flexible Futures will be compared to a social skills treatment as usual that capitalizes on current standard of care provided by local school districts.