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

Abstract

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.

Revisão sistemática da literatura sobre o treinamento para a aplicação do ensino por tentativas discretas

“…No início de 2020, contudo, foi declarado o início da pandemia da COVID-19. A pandemia impactou substancialmente tanto a oferta das intervenções baseadas na ABA para pessoas com TEA quanto a condução dos estudos sobre o ensino de profissionais e pais para a implementação dos procedimentos baseados na ABA, uma vez que os serviços presenciais foram interrompidos (e.g., Ferguson et al, 2022). Por essa razão, os serviços presenciais foram substituídos pela prática da telessaúde, a qual pode ser compreendida como o tratamento de condições relacionadas à saúde por meio da tecnologia da comunicação (Ferguson et al, 2019).…”

Effects of Physical Activity on Cognition, Behavior, and Motor Skills in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies

“…Scientific evidence has shown that, to treat ASD in schoolchildren, it is necessary to act based on two approaches. The first is medication, such as the following: Methylphenidate, Atomoxetine, and glutamatergic medication are the pharmacological treatments most used to treat this kind of disorder, because ASD is mainly related to high levels of serotonin and low levels of dopamine in the brain [12], low activity of synaptogenesis, and an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory currents [13]. The second approach is psychosocial treatments, incorporating video technology and telehealth during the last decade to coach parents [14].…”

Effectiveness of a Brief Functional Analysis and Functional Communication Training Conducted Through Telehealth

“…To date, the literature surrounding telehealth has shown positive outcomes (Craig et al, 2021;Ferguson et al, 2019Ferguson et al, , 2022aFerguson et al, , 2022b. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, numerous studies have evaluated the use of telehealth to provide behaviour analytic interventions to teach a number of skills to individuals with ASD such as functional living skills (Boutain et al, 2020;Craig et al, 2021;Gerow et al, 2021a), communication, (D'Agostino et al, 2020Ferguson et al, 2022aFerguson et al, , 2022b, and tolerating wearing a face mask (Sivaraman et al, 2021). Further, research before and during COVID-19 has also examined telehealth as a platform that facilitates functional behaviour assessments such as FA ).…”