RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06309160

COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) for Improving Transition Outcomes for Students With ASD

COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) for Integrating School, Home, and Community Services and Improving Transition Outcomes for Students With ASD

Sponsor

Ball State University

Enrollment

297 participants

Start Date

Dec 1, 2023

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Autism Autism Spectrum Disorder Autistic Disorder

Summary

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop and test the COMPASS \[Collaborative Model for Competence and Success\] Across Settings (CAST) intervention to enhance the goal setting and attainment skills of autistic youth. Despite federal education law mandating transition services as part of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) for ensuring good outcomes for students with disabilities, current educational practices have been unable to demonstrate that autistic students experience positive postsecondary outcomes. There are existing, evidence-based interventions aimed at supporting positive outcomes for these students. However, these interventions have not systematically provided coaching support to the caregivers, students, and employment specialists. To address these issues, CAST will integrate three evidence-based interventions for supporting student transitions while providing this critical coaching support. By doing so, CAST aims to align the priorities and goals of interventions across home, school, and community settings to better support positive postsecondary outcomes for autistic students.

Eligibility

Min Age: 16 YearsMax Age: 99 Years

Plain Language Summary

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This clinical trial is studying a behavioral approach called COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) for people with autism, autism spectrum disorder, and other related conditions. The study is currently recruiting participants at 1 location. People eligible for this study include aged 16 Years to 99 Years.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALCOMPASS Across Settings (CAST)

CAST will begin with an initial joint session with the student, caregiver, special education teacher, and pre-employment transition specialist that allows for discussion on the student's postsecondary goals, preferences, frustrations, challenges, and strengths related to social skills, adaptive/self-management, communication, problem behaviors, learning skills, and sensory sensitivities and preferences. This discussion will pinpoint critical social, communication, and work behavior/learning goals related to postsecondary goals and inform the intervention plans that are generated for each goal. Following this initial consultation, there will be four additional 1-hour sessions that incorporate evidence-based coaching, provided by the investigators, including performance feedback monitoring and instructional support. Each session is standardized and allows for assessment of student progress and intervention modification/self-reflection on the implementation of the intervention plans.