Effectiveness of Mother Delivered Simultaneous Prompting Taught by Visual Support on Teaching Chained Skills to Their Children with Autism

Abstract

Only teaching in schools is not enough for individuals with developmental disabilities for them to be independent in the society. For this reason, the present study has four purposes(a) Can the mothers implement simultaneous prompting reliably which was taught to them via visual supports?, (b)Can children with developmental disabilities acquire the target skills which were taught by their mothers?, (c) Can mothers and children with developmental disabilities maintain and generalize the acquired skills during the study?, and (d) What are the opinions of mothers regarding the teaching method and the study? In order to reach these purposes, a multiple probe design across participants was used in the study with four children and their mothers. After conducting the study at the homes of the participants, it was seen that mothers reliably implemented simultaneous prompting which was taught via a training CD, besides, children with developmental disabilities acquired the target skills which were taught by their mothers in the study.