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Parent Education for Families of Children with Autism Living in Geographically Distant Areas

University of California at Santa Barbara

Jennifer B. Symon

University of California at Santa Barbara

Lynn Kern Koegel

University of California at Santa Barbara

Many families who are geographically distant from a center that specializes in intervention for autism are unable to access specialized services for their children. This article describes an evaluation of an intensive, week-long, center-based parent education program that teaches procedures for improving social communication for children with autism. Five representative families who participated in this program are described. Data were collected on parent implementation of target behaviors using specific motivational teaching procedures of Pivotal Response Training. Data suggest improvements in the parents' use of the procedures, parent affect, and child expressive language during a week-long parent education session. Furthermore, follow-up measures demonstrate that these positive changes generalized to the families' home communities and maintained over time. These findings suggest the feasibility of a short-term, intensive parent education program for families who live in areas that are geographically distant from an intervention center.

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, Vol. 4, No. 2, 88-103 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/109830070200400204


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