Planned Activity Training for Parents of Children with Autism: Do Smart Tablets Serve as a Motivational Tool that Facilitates Engagement and Promotes Learning?
by Pelangka, Sarah Elizabeth, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 2011, 98 pages; 3500460

Abstract:

The current changing criterion design study looks at how a multicomponent intervention, integrating planned activity training (PAT) and computerized-assisted instruction, via the use of smart tablets, can be used to teach individuals at varying levels on the spectrum to sustain attention to and learn. PAT was implemented to teach parents a) how to teach their children to successfully use the smart tablets b) how to keep their children engaged while the parents were engaged in a separate independent task c) to generalize skills to various settings. Results show that parents were successful in implementing planned activity training components, allowing child participants to increase their length of time attended to the task. As a result, child participants were able to build on their receptive language abilities, via increasing the number of problems answered correctly across treatment phases. Lastly, child maladaptive behaviors were shown to decrease over time across all participants.

 
AdviserGeorge H. S. Singer
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
SourceDAI/A 73-06, p. , Mar 2012
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsAdult education; Special education; Educational technology
Publication Number3500460
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