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Tool for Evaluating the Effectiveness of the DENVER Protocol

Sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble

Summary

Early remediation of the communicative and social difficulties of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is central. However, from the age of 6-8 months, children with ASD show a lack of attention to social stimuli such as faces: such early avoidance behavior could be at the root of later communicative difficulties (language, attention). The Denver program aims to stimulate social communication and attention to faces in children with ASD aged between 18 and 60 months. Although the Denver protocol is currently recommended by the French National Authority for Health (HAS), the Denver protocol has not yet been widely used or evaluated in France, mainly due to a lack of tools adapted to non-verbal populations. The goal of FaceCom is to help clinicians to evaluate the efficiency of the Denver Protocol.

Official title: Tool for Evaluating the Effectiveness of the DENVER Protocol for Attention to Faces (Face) and the Development of Social Communication (Com) in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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