Measuring treatment fidelity is an essential step in research designed to increase the use of evidence-based practices. For parent-implemented communication interventions, measuring the implementation of the teaching and coaching provided to the parents is as critical as measuring the parents' delivery of the intervention to the child. Both levels…

Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the effects of the Teach-Model-Coach-Review instructional approach on caregivers' use of four enhanced milieu teaching (EMT) language support strategies and on their children's use of expressive language. Method: Four caregiver-child dyads participated in a single-subject, multiple-baseline study.…

This article draws on empirical data and anecdotal examples to support teaching parents of young children with developmental disabilities naturalistic language intervention strategies. It also identifies the skills that parent educators need to be effective and discusses a model for preparing professionals to teach parents. (Contains references.)…

Four parents were trained to use enhanced milieu teaching with their preschool children with developmental delays. The parents learned to use the strategies in the clinic and generalized them to the home. Positive effects were observed on children's spontaneous communication and target use, and on parent and child affect. (Author/DB)

This study, involving six mothers of preschoolers with language impairments, found that mothers could be taught to correctly apply four milieu language teaching procedures (model, mand-model, time delay, and incidental teaching) and that use of the procedures is associated with positive effects on various aspects of child language. (Author/JDD)

Four children with language delays and emergent behavior problems and their parents participated in an intervention that taught parents to be responsive to their children's communication, model developmentally appropriate language, and provide contingent consequences for compliance and noncompliance. The complexity and diversity of the children's…

This study explored effects of teaching three novice trainers to teach three parents to implement milieu teaching with their preschool children who had language delays. Results demonstrated improved skills among trainers and increased use of the procedures by parents. Two of the three children showed increases in their targeted language responses…

This study examined effects of training five parents to use Milieu Teaching procedures with their preschool-aged children with disabilities. Although modest levels of performance of the language teaching procedures were found for the group instruction condition, intensive feedback and coaching in the home were required to reach criterion level…

Five parents of children with language delays and emergent behavior problems from low-socioeconomic backgrounds were taught to support their preschool children's communication skills and manage their behavior. Parents learned the strategies, generalized these strategies to interactions at home, and maintained positive changes 6 months after the…

This study of 12 parents of preschool children with disabilities trained parents to implement responsive interaction and examined the effects on their child's language and communication skills. Findings indicated an improvement in and maintenance of communication and language skills of the children. Parents were satisfied with their participation…