What is the Parentworks Spectrum Program?
• ParentWorks Spectrum is a 12-week online parenting program that provides parents with strategies to manage child behavioural difficulties and promote positive parent-child interactions to help children develop social, communication and emotional regulation skills.
• Parents are be provided with strategies to support parent wellbeing and parental teamwork.
• This research may lead to the development of an effective early intervention to improve child behaviour and social-communication skills for children with autism and support parents
What is the study about?
• This study examines the effectiveness of a brief parenting program ParentWorks Spectrum for young children with autism.
• Parents and children taking part in this project are randomly allocated to receive the ParentWorks Spectrum program either immediately or will have to wait 12 weeks before commencing.
Who can participate?
• This project is available to anyone in Australia who are Parents or Caregivers of children aged between 2 and 5 years 11 months with a diagnosis of autism (Level 2 or 3)
How to get involved?
Autism Advisory & Support Service are not the point of contact for this program.
To get involved you can contact the researchers at the University of Sydney to find out more about the research.
Email your enquiry about ParentWorks Spectrum to scbrc@sydney.edu.au
Or call (02) 9114 4326.
