The clinical and research evidence supports the use of parents as co-therapists approach, both in training parents in structured teaching strategies and behavioural techniques that are used frequently while working with parents of children with autism. When parents are apportioning in the programme for pivotal response training (PRT) as full partners, their own special needs are also recognized and they are provided with suitable support and guidance. The pivotal responses targeted are motivation and responsiveness to multiple cuesto teach social interaction skills, play, increased generalization, and expressive language, in a more natural and contextually appropriate way. The present study aims to evaluate the Parent apportions in pivotal response training on augmenting Joint attention and social-communication skills for children with autism. Sixty children from 3 to 9 years and diagnosed with autism were taken from Brain-Gym Autism Research Foundation, Puducherry. The experimental group received the total procedure of the PRT under the guidance with supervision of a clinical psychologist; the control group also had a total procedure of the PRT under the guidance without supervision of a clinical psychologist. The social and Communication Development Questionnaire was used in this study. The statistical data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, students paired “t” test and independent sample “t” test for multiple comparisons. The experimental group had shown significantly better improvement in social-communication skills, joint attention, and reduced severity than the control group.

parent as a co-therapist, PRT, Social-Communication, Severity of aut