The efficacy of using telehealth to coach parents of children with autism spectrum disorder on how to use naturalistic teaching to increase mands, tacts and intraverbals
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Jenny Ferguson; Katerina Dounavi; Emma A. Craig
- Source
- Ferguson, J, Dounavi, K & Craig, E A 2022, ' The efficacy of using telehealth to coach parents of children with autism spectrum disorder on how to use naturalistic teaching to increase mands, tacts and intraverbals ', Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-022-09859-4
- Subject
- verbal behaviour
applied behaviour analysis
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
telehealth
parent training
Developmental and Educational Psychology
autism
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
SDG 4 - Quality Education
- Language
- English
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the use of telehealth to provide parent training in behaviour analytic interventions and researchers have begun to focus on international demonstrations of this model. The current study assessed the efficacy of a training package focused on naturalistic teaching strategies designed to upskill parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and provide them with ready to use strategies to increase social communication behaviours across verbal operants. Two parent-child dyads were trained to increase mand, tact and intraverbals during play. Parents displayed increases in fidelity for each strategy and viewed the training favourably. Both children showed gains across verbal operants, as captured by a multiple baseline across behaviours design.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10882-022-09859-4.