Video-based intervention for individuals with autism.
The last article for this number of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders I´m going to write about on this site it the Review article published by Christopher Rayner, Carey Denholm and Jegg Sigafoos: “Video-based intervention for individuals with autism: Key questions that remain unanswered.”
The authors has reviewed earlier published reviews to assess the current state of research on the use of Video-based interventions (VBI) for children with autism. And as expected they find evidence for the effectiveness of VBI, but as the interventions as a group are quite new, there are several key questions that needs to be addressed to refine and establish VBI.
VBI are from my experience quite effective, but requires a lot of preparations and are therefor quite time consuming and require a lot of work on the therapists side; preparing the videos (filming, editing, etc..). So if the key questions outlined in this article could be answered, the interventions could be more pinpointed and effective, and probably the work required for preparation less…
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