Teaching Skills to Toddlers: A Program for Caregivers

幼儿技能教学：护理人员计划

• 批准号: 8267677
• 负责人: Deborah A. Fein
• 金额: $ 22.77万
• 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/8267677
• 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.

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极大地改变患有早期诊断和治疗的自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童的发展轨迹。此外，尽管家长培训是许多早期干预计划的一部分，但针对家长的标准化或手动培训包却很少。我们的目标是创建一个有效的、视频丰富的教学计划，培训护理人员基本行为和发展原则，并将这些原则应用于患有自闭症谱系障碍的幼儿。我们提议开发并试点测试“幼儿教学技能：看护者计划”，这是一套视频节目，将为患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 幼儿的看护者提供关于循证疗法的基本原理和应用的高质量指导。现有的培训材料通常采用书面手册的形式，需要大量的教育、读写能力和复杂性，以及密切的专业监督，除了家长的经济成本之外，我们计划开发我们的系列材料，以使其：1.）对不同教育水平的广泛用户友好，2.）可以在最少的直接专家监督下使用，3.）在互联网上免费提供。尽管最终产品的范围会更广泛，但该项目中要开发的试点材料将侧重于沟通和社交互动。对于这个试点项目，我们将重点关注这些材料的使用作为早期干预的补充，尽管未来还会设想其他应用。在项目期间，我们将根据家长和医疗保健提供者的持续投入，创建预计的 8 个项目中的前 4 个项目，测试项目对家长的可接受性和清晰度，并对项目对家长压力和自我效能的影响进行试点测试。