Intervention characteristics and speech therapy strategies in care for autistic children in health services: a scoping review.
Renata Chrystina Bianchi de Barros, Eric Batista Ferreira, Priscila Mara Ventura Amorim Silva and 2 others
PMID 41370523WHAT IT FOUND
Most speech therapy studies for autistic children in Brazil report play-based and protocol/questionnaire methods, and most were done in university clinics.
Parental guidance and community-based care were rare, so the picture is mainly clinic-based, not everyday services.
Key findings
01Most studies reported therapeutic and evaluative practices, 67.5%, while parental guidance appeared in 2.5%.
02Play-based therapeutic context and protocols/questionnaires were each reported in 30% of studies.
03University teaching clinics were the most frequent location, 78.6%; CAPSij appeared in 2.4%.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for SLPs
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What it does not show
This is a scoping review, so it maps reported practices and does not test whether interventions improve communication. Some studies had small or heterogeneous samples, and some did not show clear differences between groups. The reviewed studies were mostly from university teaching clinics, so they may not represent community health services, schools, homes, or CAPSij. The search excluded studies not conducted by speech-language pathologists, studies without ethics approval when applicable, and studies outside Brazil. The paper reports descriptive counts and tests for association, not a meta-analysis of intervention effects.
Declared interests
Financial support was reported as Fundação de Desenvolvimento da UNICAMP, Convênio 519.292.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the reporting of play-based or PECS methods as proof these methods work. This review reports how often they appeared, not their effect.
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