Examination of Group-Based Behavioral Skills Training for Parents of Children with Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Group‐based behavioral skills training to promote effective instruction delivery for children with autism spectrum disorder

“…Given this rationale for why EID may be especially effective for children diagnosed with ASD, it would also be important to consider children's response to EID. The key child behaviors to be measured would include (1) providing eye contact after instructed; (2) initiating the instruction after the direction is delivered; and (3) completion of the instruction (e.g., LaBrot, Radley, Dart, Moore, & Cavell, 2018; LaBrot, Kupzyk, Strong‐Bak, Pasqua, & Mahon, 2020).…”

“…For example, LaBrot et al. (2020) evaluated the effectiveness of group‐based BST to train four parents of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities (i.e., ADHD, ASD, and intellectual disability) to deliver effective instructions and used performance feedback to maintain results for one participant. Specifically, this study utilized a concurrent multiple baseline across participants design to examine the effectiveness of group‐based BST for increasing the accuracy of parents' use of EID for delivering instructions and concomitant outcomes on children's response to instructions (i.e., made eye contact, initiated instruction within 5 s, and completed instruction).…”

“…Immediately following group‐based BST, LaBrot et al. (2020) collected data on parent‐delivered instructions and children's response to instructions. Furthermore, short‐term (i.e., 1 week) and long‐term (i.e., up to 4 and 6 weeks) maintenance data were collected for three participants, with maintenance data not being collected for the last participant (LaBrot et al., 2020).…”

“…However, LaBrot et al. (2020) reported that there was not a predetermined criterion for delivering performance feedback when EID accuracy decreased below a desirable criterion. This may have impacted the extent to which EID accuracy maintained over time, in that more systematically implemented performance feedback may have resulted in improved maintenance of EID accuracy.…”

“…Furthermore, this study was designed to replicate the study conducted by LaBrot et al. (2020) and address the following limitations: (1) lack of a predetermined criterion for delivering performance feedback; (2) lack of follow‐up data for all participants; and (3) lack of social validity data. The current study sought to answer the following research questions: Does group‐based BST with systematically delivered performance feedback increase parents' integrity of EID implementation and do increases in EID implementation maintain?…”