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ERIC Number: EJ1463504
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0889-9401
EISSN: EISSN-2196-8926
Available Date: 2023-05-23
A Comparison of Telehealth-Based Instruction with or without Instructive Feedback
Analysis of Verbal Behavior, v40 n2 p99-117 2024
Language delays are commonly displayed by children on the autism spectrum. To help facilitate the development of verbal behavior, practitioners often implement intensive one-on-one, face-to-face instruction. However, the COVID-19 pandemic hindered typical face-to-face service delivery and caused practitioners to assess alternative approaches to facilitate clients' continued progress. Instructive feedback (IF) is one teaching strategy to enhance instruction or make it more efficient. During this teaching procedure, instructors provide formal teaching of target responses and embed demonstrations of secondary target responses within sequences of instruction. In the current study, we investigated the efficacy of IF provided within telehealth instruction. Four participants on the autism spectrum participated in the study. Participants received two forms of telehealth instruction that targeted speaker-responding. The first form consisted of discrete trial instruction (DTI), and the second form combined DTI with IF. These results indicate that both forms of instruction improved speaker-responding of primary targets for all participants. Additionally, a secondary analysis of secondary targets indicated that two of the four participants acquired some secondary targets. These results suggest that including IF within DTI might be beneficial for some participants receiving DTI via telehealth.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Utah State University, Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, Logan, USA; 2Utah State University, Department of Psychology, Logan, USA