3 Year Follow up Study of the IDEA Population

"The intervention was ESDM, delivered by professionals, one therapist per child, 12 hours per week during 2 years.~Then, they will receive the treatment as usual during 3 years in this current follow-up study.~Precise description of the 2 years ESDM treatment can be found in the published protocol of IDEA.~What is called treatment as usual is what the community can usually offer. That is what the control group in IDEA received.~In IDEA-2, both control and interventional group of IDEA will receive treatment as usual during 3 years.~Treatment as usual comprises of different types of interventions, such as speech pathology therapy, occupational therapy and other types of therapy more or less specific to ASD in the community.~All the interventions received by the children will be monitored in IDEA-2. All different treatment approaches will be quantified (type, frequency, intensity and duration)."