Training Instructional Skills With Paraprofessional Service Providers at a Community-Based Habilitation Setting

The present study evaluates a training program with paraprofessional service providers at a community-based habilitation setting. Four staff were taught to implement alternative and augmentative communication instruction with an adult who had autism and mental retardation through a combination of in...

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Published in:Behavior modification 2007-11, Vol.31 (6), p.847-855
Main Authors: Wood, Amanda L., Luiselli, James K., Harchik, Alan E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Autism
Behavior Change
Behavior modification
Biological and medical sciences
Community Mental Health Services - organization & administration
Feedback (Response)
Group Homes
Health Personnel
Health staff related problems. Vocational training
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Job Training
Learning
Male
Managerial skills
Medical sciences
Mental Retardation
Middle Aged
Observer Variation
Older people
Paraprofessional Personnel
Paraprofessionals
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Professional Competence
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rehabilitation
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Studies
Teaching - methods
Teaching - statistics & numerical data
Teaching assistants
Training
Transfer of Training
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Summary:The present study evaluates a training program with paraprofessional service providers at a community-based habilitation setting. Four staff were taught to implement alternative and augmentative communication instruction with an adult who had autism and mental retardation through a combination of instruction, demonstration, behavior rehearsal, and performance feedback. Training was conducted under natural conditions at the adult's group home residence. Three of the four staff were able to maintain near-100% instructional accuracy following initial training. The results add to the limited research literature concerning community-based training of direct-care personnel.
ISSN:0145-4455
1552-4167
DOI:10.1177/0145445507302893