Understanding mechanisms of multi-level implementation strategies for autism interventions in a randomized trial across service systems

Aubyn C Stahmer, Anna S Lau, Scott Roesch, Elizabeth Rangel, Gregory A Aarons, Lauren Brookman-Frazee · 2025

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Proven autism therapies spread slowly into schools and clinics, and training leaders may be the lever that moves them. Aubyn Stahmer and five co-authors dig into a large randomized trial in 2025 spanning mental health programs and public schools. Sites got leader training, provider coaching, both, or neither, on top of therapy training.

Leader training did spark leaders to use more concrete support actions, its nearest target. It did not, on its own, explain gains in how faithfully the therapy was delivered or how children fared. Provider coaching alone engaged none of its targets, though pairing both strategies warmed the climate. The authors say the chain from training to child outcomes runs through links still unmapped.

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CREATORAubyn C Stahmer, Anna S Lau, Scott Roesch, Elizabeth Rangel, Gregory A Aarons, Lauren Brookman-Frazee
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE52 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12706966

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