ABA 534: Article Review on EIBI and Multiple Treatment Designs

This assignment is an article review focusing on an article about Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The review includes an introduction summarizing previous studies, the purpose of the research, and the methodology employed, including participant settings, experimental design, and the dependent and independent variables. The results section highlights the findings related to EIBI's effectiveness in enhancing adaptive behavior and the limitations of the study, such as bias and insufficient data. The discussion covers the implications of the research and suggests areas for future research, particularly the need for rigorously designed trials. The assignment also requires the inclusion of a graph from the article and the creation of a fabricated graph demonstrating a multiple treatment design, along with a brief description of the study type. The aim is to understand how multiple treatment designs are used in behavioral analysis to treat autism.

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Article Review Table:
Reichow, B., Barton, E. E., Boyd, B. A., & Hume, K. (2012). Early intensive behavioral
intervention (EIBI) for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). American
Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Intro:
Previous Studies: This article used previous works done by other authors to examine early
intensive behavioral intervention that is used in treating young children with ASD. Horward et
al., Magiati, Charman and Howlin, Remington et al. are some of the previous works that was
used to investigate EIBI effects on adaptive, communication and language skills as well as
autism symptom severity, social skills and intelligence.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to systematically review the EIBI evidence
effectiveness in reducing the severity of autism, enhancing intelligence as well as heightening
functional skills and behavior for young children.
Method:
Participants/Setting: In this article, five studies in the UK and USA were conducted. Two of
the studies were conducted in the UK while the remaining three were carried in the USA and
lasted between 24 months and 36 months. Out of the five studies, only one study utilized
random method to select a comparison or treatment group. In this study, only one study
randomly assigned children to comparison or treatment group. The other four studies utilized
the preference of parents in assigning children to groups. This study had 219 participants in the
five studies. Out of the 219 participants, 116 were grouped into EIBI groups and 103 children
was grouped in special service groups. Most of the participants used in this study were less
than six years during treatment.
Design: The result of this study was collected using randomized control trials, controlled
clinical trials and quasi RCTs. The result was then synthesized using a meta-analysis random-
effects model with the average effect size difference for outcomes examined on standardized
mean difference as well as identical scale.
DV: In this study, the dependent variable is EIBI effectiveness in increasing skills and
behaviors or reducing the severity of autism in children.
IV: In this study, the independent variable is young children with ASD.
Procedure: The study first used random control trials as well as controlled clinical trials in
comparing no-treatment or treatment control condition. It then analyzed the five studies results
utilizing meta-analysis random effect model and used GRADE approach in rating the quality
of the study.
Results (include a screenshot of the graph from your article here):

From this study, it was found that EIBI enhance adaptive behavior. Out of the 219 participants,
202 of the participants recorded evidence of low quality which indicated positive effects.
There was no evidence in EIBI post-treatment that enhances the severity of autism symptoms.
Experimental Control? They are techniques that researchers used to reduce extraneous
experience effects and reinforce the inferences that changes in the dependent variable sue to
independent variable. The study used one study to randomly assign children to the comparison
group.
Discussion:
Limitations: Some of the limitations in this research include bias and lack of reliable data.
Implications: Three studies had group imbalance that resulted to heightened risk of bias in
their review. As a result of not providing quality of treatment delivery and adherence, certain
therapists that delivered the intervention were more knowledgeable increasing the potential for
performance bias. Another limitation of this study was insufficient data that limited the extent
of analysis as well as the size of the sample making it difficult to get meaningful relationship
and trend of the variables.
Future Research: Since majority of the studies are weakened using CCT design compounded
with the risk of bias, future research on EIBI ought to be rigorously carried using suitable
larger sample sizes and RCT designs. The rigorously designed trials will permit comparisons
with EIBI as well as wider class of behavioral, developmental and naturalistic interventions.

A graph showing multiple treatment design
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The above graph demonstrates the various type of treatment that can be used to treat autism. It
shows the percentage of how each treatment method is effective in treating autism.
References
Reichow, B., Barton, E. E., Boyd, B. A., & Hume, K. (2012). Early intensive behavioral
intervention (EIBI) for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). American
Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.