Prodromal ImPACT Intervention for Children at Elevated Likelihood of ASD

"Project ImPACT (Improving Parents As Communication Teachers, Ingersoll \& Dvortcsak, 2019) is a promising evidence-based parent-mediated intervention that is part of a class of naturalistic, developmental, behavioral interventions (NBDIs). NBDIs involve the use of behavioral principles of learning to teach skills chosen from a developmental sequence in naturalistic play-setting and using natural rewards. Skills selected as relevant for intervention are those that allow the child to participate more fully within reciprocal interactions with the adult. In recent years the program has been adapted for use with infants and toddlers at elevated likelihood of ASD. These adaptations have made this program appropriate for younger children and children who are experiencing social communication delays but do not have an ASD diagnosis."