Teaching Skills to Toddlers: A Program for Caregivers

幼儿技能教学：护理人员计划

• 批准号: 8113813
• 负责人: Deborah A. Fein
• 金额: $ 22.78万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-27 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8113813
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Affect; Affective; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Caregivers; Caring; Charge; Child; Child Behavior; Cognitive; Communication; Data; Developing Countries; Development; Diagnosis; Early Diagnosis; Early treatment; Education; Educational Background; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Feedback; Financial cost; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Human Resources; Individual; Instruction; International; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Language; Letters; Manuals; Materials Testing; Measures; Methods; Motivation; Outcome; Parenting Education; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Physicians; Pilot Projects; Play; Population; Positive Reinforcements; Pre-Post Tests; Program Acceptability; Provider; Psychologist; Randomized; Recruitment Activity; Self Efficacy; Series; Services; Social Change; Social Interaction; Sorting - Cell Movement; Speech; Staging; Stress; Structure; Supervision; Teaching Method; Techniques; Testing; Time; Toddler; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; Writing; autism spectrum disorder; base; caregiver education; caregiving; cost effective; diaries; early childhood; efficacy testing; efficacy trial; evidence base; improved; intervention program; joint attention; literacy; programs; skills; suspected autism; task analysis; tool; user-friendly

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The application of behavioral and developmental principles to early teaching can dramatically alter the developmental trajectory of children with early-diagnosed and treated Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Furthermore, although parent training is part of many early intervention programs, there are few standardized or manualized training packages for parents. Our aim is to create an effective, video enriched, teaching program, to train caregivers in basic behavioral and developmental principles, and in the application of these principles to young children with ASD. We are proposing to develop and pilot test "Teaching Skills to Toddlers: A Program for Caregivers," a set of video programs that will deliver high quality instruction in basic principles and applications of evidence-based therapies for caregivers of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In contrast to available training materials, which are generally in the form of written manuals and require substantial education, literacy and sophistication, as well as close professional supervision, in addition to including a financial cost to parents, we plan to develop our series so that it is 1.) user-friendly to a wide range of people with different levels of education, 2.) possible to use with a minimum of direct expert supervision, and 3.) provided free of charge on the internet. Although the final product will be broader in scope, the pilot materials to be developed in this project will focus on communication and social interaction. For this pilot project, we will focus on the use of the materials as a supplement to early intervention, although other applications are envisioned for the future. In the project period, we will, with ongoing input from parents and health care providers, create the first 4 of the projected 8 programs, test the acceptability and clarity of the program to parents, and conduct a pilot test of the effect of the programs on parent stress and self-efficacy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders can have improved outcomes if they obtain early and intensive intervention, but available early intervention is often not intensive or not evidence-based in its methods. Our aim is to create a set of video programs that will deliver high quality instruction in basic principles and applications of evidence-based behavioral and naturalistic therapy techniques to parents of young children with ASD, enabling them to implement intervention early, and improve outcomes for their children. Concepts will be explained clearly and simply, in non-technical language, to maximize the range of parents who can use the material, and the usefulness of the material as an adjunct to early intervention services will be assessed in a pilot study.

描述（由申请人提供）：将行为和发展原则应用于早期教学可以显著改变早期诊断和治疗自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童的发展轨迹。此外，虽然父母培训是许多早期干预计划的一部分，但很少有标准化或手册化的父母培训包。我们的目标是创建一个有效的，丰富的视频，教学计划，培训照顾者的基本行为和发展原则，并在这些原则的应用与ASD幼儿。我们建议开发和试点测试“幼儿教学技能：照顾者计划”，这是一套视频节目，将为自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）幼儿的照顾者提供高质量的循证疗法的基本原则和应用指导。与现有的培训材料相比，这些材料通常是书面手册的形式，需要大量的教育，识字和复杂性，以及密切的专业监督，除了包括父母的经济成本，我们计划开发我们的系列，以便它是1。对不同教育水平的广泛人群都是用户友好的，2.）可以在最低限度的直接专家监督下使用，以及3.）在互联网上免费提供。虽然最后产品的范围将更广，但本项目拟编写的试验材料将侧重于沟通和社会互动。对于这个试点项目，我们将把重点放在使用这些材料作为早期干预的补充，尽管未来还设想了其他应用。在项目期间，我们将与家长和医疗保健提供者的持续投入，创建计划的8个项目中的前4个，测试该计划对家长的可接受性和清晰度，并对该计划对家长压力和自我效能的影响进行试点测试。 公共卫生关系：自闭症谱系障碍儿童如果获得早期和强化干预，可以改善结果，但可用的早期干预往往不是强化的，或者在方法上没有证据。我们的目标是创建一套视频节目，为ASD幼儿的父母提供高质量的循证行为和自然主义治疗技术的基本原则和应用指导，使他们能够尽早实施干预，并改善其子女的结果。将用非技术性语言简单明了地解释概念，以最大限度地扩大可以使用材料的父母的范围，并将在一项试点研究中评估材料作为早期干预服务的辅助手段的有用性。