Self-instructional training manuals and video modeling have been demonstrated to be effective for teaching university students and direct-care staff to conduct behavioral procedures, such as preference assessments and discrete-trials teaching with persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities – Revised (ABLA-R) is an assessment tool used by Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) service providers for determining the learning ability of clients with ID and children with ASD. In this study, I combined an ABLA-R self-instructional manual (DeWiele et al., 2014) with video modeling and evaluated the effectiveness of the training package for teaching ABA service providers to administer the ABLA-R to a child with ASD. I evaluated the training package using a single-subject, modified concurrent multiple baseline (MB) design across a pair of participants, replicated across three other pairs of participants, plus a modified nonconcurrent MB design across a pair of participants, replicated across one other pair. Participants demonstrated a significant increase in the accuracy with which they administered the ABLA-R to an experimenter from baseline to post-test, and conducted the ABLA-R with high accuracy in a generalization assessment with a child with ASD. An implication of this research is that the self- instructional training package is an effective tool for training ABA service providers to accurately administer the ABLA-R to children with ASD. / October 2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/31643 |
| Date | 08 September 2016 |
| Creators | Boris, Ashley |
| Contributors | Martin, Garry (Psychology), Martin, Toby (Psychology) Virues-Ortega, Javier (Psychology) Hrycaiko, Dennis (Kinesiology and Recreation Management) Miltenberger, Raymond (University of South Florida) |
| Source Sets | University of Manitoba Canada |
| Detected Language | English |
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