Parent training for parents of children on the autism spectrum: a review

Abstract

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition with biological, genetic, environmental and developmental causes, which are still not clearly understood. Parents are usually the primary caregivers for their children and the essential link between home and school environments. Often they also take on a coach or therapist role across a variety of interventions, which demands a great amount of time, dedication, energy and financial resources. Increased parent skills allow for continued opportunities for the child to learn in a range of different situations and environments, and parent training is now considered an important component of successful intervention programs. This paper is a review of current research regarding parent training for parents of children on the autism spectrum.

Vídeos para instrução remota de cuidadores de crianças com desenvolvimento atípico durante a pandemia de COVID-19

“…A aplicação de programas de ensino via cuidador tem-se demonstrado promissora tendo em vista seus resultados obtidos em pesquisas aplicadas (e.g. Silva et al, 2019) e seu potencial de aumentar a intensidade das intervenções, reduzir seu custo e aumentar a probabilidade de generalização dos repertórios ensinados (Barboza, Costa, & Barros, 2019;Dogan et al, 2017;Prata, Lawson, & Coelho, 2018). Estudos têm investigado desde repertórios basais para funcionalidade de pessoas com TEA, como: habilidades sociais (Dogan et al, 2017), manejo de comportamentos inadequados (Guimarães et al, 2018;Bagaiolo et al, 2017), comportamento verbal: tato (Borba, Monteiro, Barboza, Trindade, & Barros, 2015;Silva et al, 2019), mando (Loughrey et al, 2014;Silva et al, 2019); até procedimentos de ensino como: treino por tentativas discretas (Barboza et al 2019;Ferreira, Silva, & Barros, 2016;Silva et al, 2019), e ensino naturalístico (Hsieh, Wilder, & Abellon, 2011).…”

“…Tendo em vista as evidências da capacitação de aplicadores de forma remota (ICT) (Barboza et al, 2019;Gerencser et al, 2017;Higbee et al, 2016) e as evidências da efetividade de procedimentos aplicados por cuidadores (Barboza, et al, 2019;Dogan et al, 2017;Prata et al, 2018), intervenções via telessaúde despontam como alternativa promissoras para dar continuidade aos atendimentos em momento de pandemia.…”

“…Há uma literatura considerável envolvendo intervenção ao TEA e a crianças com desenvolvimento atípico via cuidador, para a manutenção ou ensino de diferentes habilidades (Barboza et al, 2019;Dogan et al, 2017;Laski et al, 1988;Loughrey et al, 2014;Prata et al, 2018). Esse momento de pandemia tem colocado em evidência essa modalidade de intervenção, que já há algum tempo tem sido sugerida por alguns autores (Barboza et al, 2015;Silva et al, 2019) como uma alternativa de intervenção em países em desenvolvimento 2020, VOL.…”

Parent Training Program for Autism Spectrum Disorder During The Covid-19 Pandemic Period in Indonesia

“…The demand for special services for ASD children has increased as the prevalence of ASD has increased, so that service providers are expected to provide high-quality interventions as early as possible in the form of public services, equitable and accessible to all children with ASD in need. However, due to insufficient resource constraints, more children and parents are not able to get the services they should, and this is related to high levels of stress and psychological pressure [4].…”

“…The Covid-19 pandemic situation that has lasted for several months has resulted in therapy services being unable to be carried out as before, due to limited therapy in health care As technology advances, independent technology training programs or web-based programs are also interesting [4]. Can use telehealth to provide training to remote parents or service limitations, flexible can be accessed at any time, minimizes scheduling difficulties, can adapt to various environments, individually and selected based on parental needs.…”