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Embrace autism how to#

Training on how to deliver CUES has been rolled out to the NHS and education professionals, with over 100 clinicians now trained nationally in a range of settings.

Professor Rodgers and her team have already taken steps to implement CUES nationally and internationally: The study was a feasibility study and CUES© needs to now be evaluated in a definitive trial. Therapists taking part in the trial all reported that they would like to integrate CUES© into their practice. They showed an improved ability to identify and manage their child’s IU and saw a change in their child’s response to anxiety provoking situations.

Parents finished the programme feeling empowered and confident, and many were sad when the study ended. Each sessions included approximately ten parents and took place weekly for 8 weeks with at home’ activities set out each week for parents and children to complete between sessions. Of the 26 participants randomised to CUES©, 72% attended 4–8 sessions.

All of the children met the clinical threshold for at least one anxiety disorder. Parents of fifty autistic children who experience anxiety were recruited from NHS services and were randomised to receive CUES© or enhanced services as usual. Even though researchers understand the important role that IU plays, there are no existing therapies that specifically target it in children with autism. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) plays an important role in how anxiety develops and persists in autistic children and is also a barrier to effective treatment. Anxiety causes difficulties for almost half of autistic children and most of them will continue to struggle with anxiety into adulthood.