Melanie Pellecchia

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of tiered levels of implementation support for the Parent Empowerment and Coaching in Early Intervention (PEACE) toolkit in increasing early intervention (EI) providers' use of caregiver coaching for families of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Intervention for ASD initiated in earlier ages improves children's long-term cognition, language, behavior, and development. Caregiver-mediated intervention is considered...

The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research for improving Part C early intervention (EI) providers' implementation of parent-mediated interventions with families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop knowledge and skills related to parent coaching, mixed-methods research, community-partnered participatory research, and grant writing. Research demonstrates that parent-mediated early interventi...