Research: Parent Training: Acquisition and Generalization of Discrete Trials Teaching Skills with Parents of Children with Autism

Authored by Crockett, JL, Fleming RK, Doepke KJ, and Stevens JS in Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 23-36, (2007).

Article summary (posted Jun 23, 2009):

Training on behavioral therapy techniques needs to be less expensive so that more parents can be trained on interventions that help their children with autism.

The authors described how two parents successfully learned skills for teaching their 4-year-old children with autism. The parents taught attending (focusing attention), ball/toy play, and verbal imitation. Training sessions lasted 2 hours and the parent and child worked together for 6-9 sessions. Their children showed improvements in these skills and there were improvements in other skills that were not taught to parents in the training sessions. The authors believe that parent training in some skills may help parents teach other skills (generalization). The authors noted that the amount of time and cost involved in current parent training is high. Training would be more helpful if time and cost could be lowered.

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applied behavior analysis (ABA), attention, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, developmental disabilities, discrete trial training (DTT), generalization, imitation, parent, parent training, play, therapy, verbal
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