Evaluation Effectiveness of the Family Based Program for Managing the Behavioral Excesses of Autism: a Single Case Study

Parent-mediated interventions are consid-ered as an effective intervention to treat children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Most of these interventions focus The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this program on three parents of children with ASD. This study was a single-subject design and was perfo-rmed on three children with ASD aged 2 to 3 years old. Parents of these children re-ceived 10 individual sessions of FPMA-BE. 9 stages of evaluation were performed (3 evaluations in baseline, 5 evaluations during treatment and one evaluation in follow up). The instruments used in this study were the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revise (RBS), Autism Treatment Evalu-ation Checklist and The Aberrant Beh-avior Checklist. To analyze data, visual analysis and effect size were used. The results of the study showed that BE such as stereotyped behaviors (d= 82%), self-injury (d= 100%), compulsive behaviors (d= 85%), rituals (d= 85%), sameness (d= 100%), restricted behaviors (d= 83%), irritability (d= 79%), echolalia (d= 84%) and hyperactivity (d= 26%) decreased. At the same time, SD (such as Speech/comm-unication, Sociability) improved without any intervention on behavioral deficits. Since, the results of this study support the effectiveness of the FPMABE, it is recom-mended to use this program as an early intervention for the treatment of children with ASD even prior to treatment of SD to take advantage of family-based programs.