Teaching Caregivers to Implement the Caregivers Optimizing Achievement of Children With Hearing Loss (COACH) Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study examined the effectiveness of Caregivers Optimizing Achievement of Children With Hearing Loss (COACH), an intervention in which parents were taught naturalistic interaction strategies that addressed the unique linguistic input needs of their young children with hearing loss.

Method

A single-subject multiple-baseline across-behaviors design was used with four caregiver-child dyads to determine the effects of COACH training on caregivers' use of the COACH language facilitation strategies and on their children's language abilities.

Results

A functional relation was demonstrated between teaching of strategies and caregivers' use of the strategies across three dyads with slower, consistent changes observed in a fourth dyad. Improvements in children's use

SUBMITTER: Ambrose SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473369 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature