Research indicates that reciprocal social interactions between parents and children are important to the development of social/communication skills. The role of the parent within reciprocal social interactions is to facilitate the development of social/communicative responses by the infant. / Parents with young children who are disabled are less facilitative within social interactions. The research described in this dissertation describes the effects of an intervention in which parents were taught to use facilitative strategies when interacting with their children who are severely/profoundly handicapped. / A multiple probe design (Horner & Baer, 1987) across three subjects was used to assess the relationship between the intervention and subject behavior. Dependent measures included parent use of choice, elaboration, social games and imitation. Child dependent measures are child social behavior including behaviors directed to parent and behaviors directed to objects with parent, and child isolate behaviors including behaviors directed to self and behaviors directed to environment. / Play interactions were videotaped for five minutes and the dependent variables later measured using a partial interval recording system. A mealtime interaction was also evaluated with two of the parent/child dyads to assess if parent use of facilitative strategies generalized to a nontraining situation. / The results of the research indicated the following. There was a functional relationship between the training a parent received and their increased use of facilitative strategies when interacting with their children within the training and nontraining situation. In two of the three subject dyads, parents increased use of facilitative strategies were clearly related to child's increased frequency of social behavior. Two of the parents reported positive differences in the quality of their interactions after the intervention. Professionals, expert in early childhood special education, examined a set of the videotaped observations and rated posttraining tapes higher than baseline tapes on interaction quality. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-03, Section: A, page: 0662. / Major Professor: David L. Westling. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77962 |
| Contributors | Fox, Lise., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 108 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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