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Article: Using relationship-focused intervention to enhance the social--emotional functioning of young children with autism spectrum disorders.
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- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Relationship-focused (RF) intervention is a general approach to developmental intervention that encourages parents to use responsive interactive strategies (e.g., take one turn and wait; follow the child's lead) during routine interactions with their children. This approach to intervention is derived from child development research reported over the past 30 years that has consistently indicated a moderate relation between the degree in which mothers engage in responsive interactions with their children and children's level of cognitive functioning (Beckwith & Cohen, 1989), language (Bornstein, Tamis-LeMonda, & Haynes, 1999; Hoff-Ginsburg & Shatz, 1982), and ...