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）儿童的发育轨迹。此外，尽管父母培训是许多早期干预计划的一部分，但对于父母来说，很少有标准化或手动培训包。我们的目的是创建一个有效的，视频丰富，教学计划，以培训护理人员的基本行为和发展原则，并将这些原则应用于ASD的幼儿。我们建议开发和试行测试“为幼儿的教学技巧：护理人员计划”，这是一系列视频计划，这些计划将在基本原理和适用于自闭症谱系障碍幼儿（ASD）的循证疗法的基本原理和应用中提供高质量的教学。与可用的培训材料相反，这些材料通常是书面手册的形式，需要实质性的教育，识字和复杂性以及仔细的专业监督，除了包括父母的财务成本外，我们计划开发我们的系列。以使其对1.）进行1.）对具有不同教育的广泛范围的人进行用户友好，2.）可以免费提供直接的专家，并免费提供。尽管最终产品的范围将更广泛，但该项目中要开发的试点材料将集中于沟通和社交互动。对于这个试点项目，我们将专注于将材料用作早期干预的补充，尽管将来有其他应用程序。在项目期间，我们将在父母和卫生保健提供者的持续意见下创建预计8个计划的前4个，测试该计划对父母的可接受性和清晰度，并对计划对父母压力和自我效能的影响进行试点测试。 公共卫生相关性：如果自闭症谱系障碍的儿童获得早期干预，可以改善结果，但可用的早期干预通常不是强化或不基于证据的方法。我们的目的是创建一系列视频程序，以基于循证的行为和自然主义治疗技术的基本原则和应用为ASD的幼儿的父母提供高质量的指导，使他们能够尽早实施干预，并改善孩子的成果。概念将被清楚地解释，简单地用非技术语言来最大化可以使用材料的父母范围，并且将在一项试点研究中评估材料作为早期干预服务的辅助功能的有用性。