Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Training Program for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Title: Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Training Program for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Authors: Ünlü, Emre, Vuran, Sezgin, Diken, Ibrahim Halil
Source: International Journal of Progressive Education. 2018 14(3):12-31.
Availability: International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://www.inased.org/ijpe.htm
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2018
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification, Skill Development, Parents, Family Programs, Parenting Styles, Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Imitation, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness, Receptive Language, Language Skills, Gender Differences
Geographic Terms: Turkey
Assessment and Survey Identifiers: Test of Early Language Development
ISSN: 1554-5210
Abstract: Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is one of many scientific based practices used in the education of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is seen that many evidence based practices are limited to the studies conducted by universities and cannot become widespread. Involvement of parents in their children's education processes and utilization of evidence based practices play a very important role in overcoming the problems and achieving the desired results in children with ASD. In this study, the effectiveness of a group of family training programme, which has been developed to upskill parents to present DTT, was investigated on 14 mothers and 14 fathers. The result shows that there is a significant difference between experiment and control groups' DTT scores. On the other hand there is no significant difference between mothers' and fathers' DTT performance in experiment group. Also children whose parents in the experiment group improved imitation skills during the study. The parent training program has been found effective on teaching parents how to use DTT. All the parents indicated their satisfactions about the program and they also suggested the program to the other parents.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 56
Entry Date: 2018
Accession Number: EJ1186534
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is one of many scientific based practices used in the education of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is seen that many evidence based practices are limited to the studies conducted by universities and cannot become widespread. Involvement of parents in their children's education processes and utilization of evidence based practices play a very important role in overcoming the problems and achieving the desired results in children with ASD. In this study, the effectiveness of a group of family training programme, which has been developed to upskill parents to present DTT, was investigated on 14 mothers and 14 fathers. The result shows that there is a significant difference between experiment and control groups' DTT scores. On the other hand there is no significant difference between mothers' and fathers' DTT performance in experiment group. Also children whose parents in the experiment group improved imitation skills during the study. The parent training program has been found effective on teaching parents how to use DTT. All the parents indicated their satisfactions about the program and they also suggested the program to the other parents.
ISSN:1554-5210