Using Technology to Expand and Enhance Applied Behavioral Analysis Programs for Children with Autism in Military Families
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are disorders that affect as many 1 in 88 children. Without intensive treatment, the long term outcomes for children with an ASD remain bleak and are associated with a high divorce rate among parents. Interventions based on applied behavior analysis are well documented, but unfortunately these services are often not available to military-dependent children because of the lack of appropriately training individuals. This project will demonstrate how web-based technologies can increase the availability of this effective treatment. The fourth year of the award involved the continued recruitment of families with a child with an ASD to evaluate the technology-enhanced parent-training (Experiment 1) and technology-enhanced tutor-training (Experiment 2) curricula as well as the technology-enhanced early-intervention services in familys homes (Experiment 3). In addition to the preliminary results being published for the technology-enhanced tutor-training that we reported last year (Fisher, Luczynski, Hood, Lesser, Machado, and Piazza, 2014), we have conducted preliminary results for the technology-enhanced parent-training curriculum, which also showed robust and statistically significant improvements in performance. We plan to submit these data for publication in the next several months. As detailed in the current report, preliminary analyses of the technology-enhanced early-intervention services were completed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2015
- Accession Number
- AD1002965
Entities
People
- Cathleen C. Piazza
- Henry S. Roane
- Kevin C. Luczynski
- Wayne W Fisher
Organizations
- University of Nebraska Omaha