Evaluation Report on the Western Area Support Project (WASP) on early intervention with families who have a child with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

McConkey, Roy; Truesdale-Kennedy, Maria; Milligan, Victoria

Abstract

The WASP Project is funded by the Children Fund and aims to develop a holistic approach to interventions with families in the Western Board1 area of Northern Ireland. This is the first attempt in Northern Ireland to develop a Board-wide approach to the provision of specific ASD services for these families and children. International experience suggests that positive changes are possible with early
identification followed by consistent intervention that involves the parents and provides direct teaching of essential skills with the child.
The evaluation of the WASP project would garner the learning from this new initiative and assess the implications for the future development of these services and similar ones in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

• Report Type: Research Report
• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: Feb 15, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 15, 2019
• Publisher: University of Ulster
• Pages: 43
• Keywords: Western Area Support Project (WASP), Autism, early intervention,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1585907
• Contract Date: Feb 15, 2019