Effects of Coaching Practices on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Mothers

Authors : Aynur Gıcı Vatansever, Emine Ahmetoğlu

Pages : 433-445

Doi:10.17556/erziefd.1452426

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Publication Date : 2024-09-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The researchers aim to investigate the influence of coaching on mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the purpose of instructing them in the use of the least-to-most prompting process for teaching their children how to engage in joint attention. In addition, they will examine the impact of the least-to-most prompting procedure on the children\'s outcomes in relation to their capacity to engage in joint attention. The study deployed a multiple baseline design with mother-child dyads. The study comprised three sets of dyads. All children aged four to seven are diagnosed with ASD in addition to intellectual disability. The results indicate that mothers effectively acquired teaching behaviours by applying the least-to-most prompting technique through coaching, achieving a perfect accuracy rate of 100%. In addition, these learned behaviours were regularly sustained for durations of one, three, and five weeks, and were effectively employed in diverse circumstances and with distinct persons. Moreover, the findings indicated that children with ASD effectively acquired the capacity to react to shared attention, maintained this ability over a period of time, and utilised it in different situations and with different individuals. Overall, the mothers conveyed positive perspectives regarding the social validity of the study.
Keywords : koçluk uygulamaları, aile koçluğu, otizm spektrum bozukluğu, ortak dikkate tepki verme, ipucunun giderek arttırılmasıyla öğretim uygulaması