Effects of parent-implemented incidental teaching on complexity and generalization of mands

Document Type

Thesis

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Degree

M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis

Date Completed

2017

First Committee Member

Karsten, Amanda

Second Committee Member

MacDonald, Rebecca

Third Committee Member

Johnson, Cammarie

Abstract

"Parents of children with disabilities such as ASD may not have access to research-based interventions if professional assistance is too costly or if they live in a region where the demand for services exceeds the number of qualified service providers. Manualized parent training of efficacious treatment packages, such as incidental teaching, would allow practitioners with little or no background in behavior analysis to reach more children in need of services. Michaud and Karsten (unpublished dissertation) evaluated the efficacy, feasibility, and social validity of a manualized parent training of incidental teaching. In the current study, the efficacy of parent-implemented treatment was assessed with pre- and post-parent training child mand assessments. A concurrent multiple baseline design between pairs of participants demonstrated increases in the complexity of mands of 75% of child participants as well as the spread of training effects to new stimuli."

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