Training Coaches in Community Agencies to Support Parents of Children with Suspected Autism: Outcomes, Facilitators, and Barriers

Mirenda, Pat; Smith, Veronica; Colozzo, Paola; Vismara, Laurie A.; Ungar, Wendy J.; Kalynchuk, Karen

doi:10.1007/s10803-021-05363-4

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“…These findings suggest that professionals may underestimate the readiness of families to participate in remote parent coaching, and may themselves come across as more confident than they actually feel. As with other studies looking at parent satisfaction with autism services, most of the parents in the current study reported that their therapist's "level of concern for their child" was the characteristic they most appreciated, while therapists reported appreciating the parents' "perseverance" and "positivity" (Estes et al, 2019;Makino et al, 2021;Mirenda et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 73%

Remote Intensive Parent-Implemented Intervention for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum During Covid-19: The Experience of Parents and Therapists

Wilde

Kojovic

Robertson

et al. 2022

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In the spring of 2020, autism intervention programs in Geneva, Switzerland, were forced to close during a state-mandated home confinement period, in the response to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therapists from three programs were asked to move early, intensive intervention sessions to an online video-conferencing format, providing primarily remote parent-implemented intervention sessions over a two-month period. In this study, we assessed the participation and satisfaction of 45 families from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, with 43 young children on the autism spectrum, and 5 toddlers who were suspected of having autism, as they experienced intervention services via telehealth for the first time. We provided questionnaires, to both the parents and the therapists working with them. Parents, regardless of socioeconomic status or cultural background, were highly motivated and engaged to learn the intervention strategies, with most families reporting high levels of satisfaction with the intensive, remote parent coaching model. The majority of parents reported that they progressed more in their interaction skills with their child with the daily remote coaching sessions, compared to services they received prior to the pandemic. Additionally, parents reported a positive experience with a much higher frequency of coaching sessions than has previously been studied. In our monitoring of child developmental progress, we observed a pattern of continued significant improvement across domains, without any stagnation of progress during the telehealth period. Our findings support previous studies that have demonstrated the benefits of telehealth services for young families with children on the autism spectrum, and go further to demonstrate high levels of satisfaction and motivation with caregivers from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, when provided with a high frequency of remote parent-implemented intervention.

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Section: Comparison Of Parent and Therapist Experiencesupporting

confidence: 73%

Remote Intensive Parent-Implemented Intervention for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum During Covid-19: The Experience of Parents and Therapists

Wilde

Kojovic

Robertson

et al. 2022

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“…This meant that we had to train staff in the community agencies (via online modules produced by the project) to identify, invite, consent, and recruit parents for autism screening and to administer the M-CHAT-R/F, a measure that few of them had used before. Third, in the first year of the project, the project trained parent coaches who were primarily community college graduates, not graduate-level ESDM therapists and parent trainers, and then supported them to provide coaching to families in the PC group (Mirenda et al, 2021). Fourth, we relied on professionals in community agencies-not experienced assessors in a research setting-to invite, consent, and conduct assessments at two time points with parents and children.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A description of the coach training program and related outcomes is beyond the scope of this paper and is described in detail elsewhere (Mirenda et al, 2021;. Because this was a community-based collaborative project, all trainees who completed the coach training program were eligible to coach a family in the study.…”

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“…Parents in the PC group were assigned to a coach at the local CDC who completed the training associated with the project (Mirenda et al, 2021). PC parents were to receive 1 h of PC for 24 out of 30 weeks, plus one brief (i.e., 5-15 min) telephone follow-up session weekly or as needed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additional components of the project are summarized elsewhere, including the results of a community-based approach to parent coach training(Mirenda et al, 2021), a qualitative evaluation of factors…”

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A Randomized, Community-Based Feasibility Trial of Modified ESDM for Toddlers with Suspected Autism

Mirenda

Colozzo

Smith

et al. 2022

J Autism Dev Disord

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A randomized feasibility trial of a parent coaching (PC) intervention was conducted across 16 community agencies in a Canadian province. Parents of toddlers with suspected autism were assigned to either a PC group (n = 24) or an enhanced community treatment (ECT) group (n = 25). PC participants received 24 weeks of coaching support from community service providers trained in the project. Children in both groups also received available community services and supplementary materials. PC children made significantly greater gains in word understanding and PC parents had significantly higher quality of life, satisfaction, and self-efficacy scores. Results are discussed in terms of the challenges of conducting feasibility studies in community settings and the lessons learned in the project. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05390-1.

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Early Intervention Provider-Reported NDBI Use and Relationships with Provider- to System-Level Implementation Determinants

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Davies

et al. 2023

J Autism Dev Disord

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Training Coaches in Community Agencies to Support Parents of Children with Suspected Autism: Outcomes, Facilitators, and Barriers

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Remote Intensive Parent-Implemented Intervention for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum During Covid-19: The Experience of Parents and Therapists

Remote Intensive Parent-Implemented Intervention for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum During Covid-19: The Experience of Parents and Therapists

A Randomized, Community-Based Feasibility Trial of Modified ESDM for Toddlers with Suspected Autism

Early Intervention Provider-Reported NDBI Use and Relationships with Provider- to System-Level Implementation Determinants

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