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A pilot study comparing the efficacy of tele-therapy and in-person therapy in a parent training program for children with autism spectrum disorders |
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Ying Hao - University of Texas at Austin
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Hoyoung Yi - University of Texas at Austin
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Jamie Purrington - University of Texas at Austin
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Alana Guzick - University of Texas at Austin
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Madhu Sundarrajan - University of Texas at Austin
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Jessica Franco - University of Texas at Austin
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| SRCLD Year: |
2018 |
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Special Session |
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We compared the efficacy of tele-therapy and in-person therapy for participants in a parent training program for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thirty-two children with ASD and their parents participated in either In-person therapy (n=17) or Zoom (an online meeting software) therapy (n=15). The therapy included a 6-week training (1-hour session per week) on strategies to improve children’s social and language skills. Each session, clinicians recorded a 10-minute language sample of parent-child interaction, and analyzed children’s mean length of utterances (MLU) and number of different words (NDW). They also reported parents’ applications of the targeted strategies using the fidelity of intervention implementation (FII). We compared changes in children’s MLU and NDW, and parents’ changes on scores of FII. Pilot results showed that the two groups did not differ on MLU and NDW, but also did not show significant changes over time. For FII, In-person group demonstrated steeper increase than Zoom group. Implications of these findings are discussed. The project was supported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
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