Nu var det ett tag sedan jag läste hela rapporten "Mångsidiga insatser...", men jag har för mig att de framförallt kom till slutsatsen att man bör jobba med barnen intensivt 25-40 timmar i veckan och att det bör finnas inslag av beteendeterapi med i träningen.
En ok slutsats tycker jag, men när det gäller forskningsläget brukar jag föredra att att hänvisa till den amerikanska förlagan "Educating Children with autism" från The National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Nedanstående referat från NAS rapport kommer från DIR/Floortimes hemsida:
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in its report? Educating Children with Autism? (National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism, NRC, 2001), states that there is research support for a number of approaches, including DIR/Floortime and behavioral interventions, but that there are no proven ?relationships between any particular intervention and children?s progress? (page 5) and ?no adequate comparisons of different comprehensive treatments? (page 8). The report concludes that effective interventions vary depending on an individual child?s and family?s needs. The NAS analysis further indicates that behavioral interventions are moving toward naturalistic, spontaneous types of learning situations that follow the child?s interests, and note that ?studies have reported that naturalistic approaches are more effective than traditional discrete trial at leading to generalization of language gains to natural contexts: (Koegel, Camarata, Valdez Menchaca, and Koegel, 1998; McGee, Krantz, and McClannahan, 1985). Länk: www.icdl.com/dirFloortime/research/index.shtml