To Participate in PIPA:
To be Eligible, your Child Must:
- Be between the ages of 3 and 6 years old
- Have autism or related characteristics
- Speaks less than 20 functional, spontaneous words
- Currently using or a candidate for a speech-generating device
- Attends a preschool with peers
- Each family will receive $100 for participating
Recruiting School Team Members:
- To be trained as lead interventionist
- Learn strategies to increase children's social communication and interactions
- Complete behavioral questionnaire
- Lead school team member will receive $325 for providing intervention
- This may include speech-language pathologists (SLP), special education teachers, behavior therapists, paraprofessionals, or related personnel
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“So much of my career has been focused on the child that I’m working with, and here in early childhood we have access to peers that are typically developing, and we include them, of course, but never have I facilitated to this degree to support their interactions with each other in this kind of approach, so it’s been amazing to see the progress."
Ashley Maiava (SLP, Lansing Early Childhood)