Advisor
Jackson, Lewis (Lewis B.)
Advisor
Mueller, Tracy G.
Committee Member
Rude, Harvey
Department
Special Education
Institution
University of Northern Colorado
Type of Resources
Text
Place of Publication
Greeley (Colo.)
Publisher
University of Northern Colorado
Date Created
12-1-2015
Genre
Thesis
Extent
164 pageS
Digital Origin
Born digital
Abstract
Providing children with autism with early intensive behavioral interventions has become a research priority. Specifically, early and intensive behavioral intervention of Pivotal Response Training (PRT) has been targeted as an effective natural behavioral intervention. The present study extended the use of PRT to teaching parents to implement this intervention in their home natural settings and was hypothesized to intensify and increase the time access to the intervention; hence, enhance maintenance and generalization of social communication skills for children with autism. A multiple-probe-across-setting design was used in this study to determine if training parents of children with autism to use Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), specifically teaching their children to label and use query responses, enhanced social communication skills and also led to generalization in other settings. The results of this study of three distinct families who participated in this study showed that parents were able to learn, implement, and generalize the Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) intervention. Also, the children of these parents significantly increased their communication responses at home and generalized these communication responses across different settings. Implications of the findings of this study were discussed and further lines of research were suggested. The implications included that social conversation could be enhanced through the implementation of naturalistic behavioral intervention that included motivational variables.
Degree type
PhD
Degree Name
Doctoral
Language
English
Local Identifiers
Alzayer_unco_0161D_10384
Rights Statement
Copyright is held by author.
