Evaluation of Caregiver Training Procedures to Teach Activities of Daily Living Skills.

ABSTRACT: Caregivers of children with an autism spectrum disorder are often responsible for assisting their children to complete activities of daily living skills. Effective and efficient caregiver training methods are needed to train caregivers. The present study used two concurrent multiple-baseline across-participants designs to evaluate the effects of real-time feedback and behavioral skills training on training eight caregivers to implement teaching procedures for activities of daily living skills with their child. We assessed caregivers' accuracy and correct implementation of the six-component teaching procedure after they received either real-time feedback or behavioral skills training. Caregivers from both groups mastered and maintained correct implementation of the teaching procedures with

SUBMITTER: Preas EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586411 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature