Efeitos de videomodelação instrucional sobre o desempenho de cuidadores na aplicação de programas de ensino a crianças diagnosticadas com autismo

Abstract

Caregiver teaching has been a promising methodology to face the arising demand of individuals diagnosed with developmental delays, especially those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This study aimed to develop and evaluate the effect of a package of instructional videomodeling on the performance accuracy of caregivers in implementing teaching programs to children diagnosed with ASD. The videos used had, as essential elements: exhibition of multiple exemplars, subtitles, narrations, and visual cues throughout the video. A multiple-baseline design across participants was used to measure the effect of the videomodeling procedure on the performance accuracy of the caregivers. Three parents of children diagnosed with TEA participated: Alice, Cassio, and Fernanda, who presented, respectively, 6%, 25%, and 45% average accuracy throughout baseline measures. After videomodeling procedure, performance accuracy reached 83%, 88%, and 80% average accuracy. Considering such results, we believe that the procedure of instructional videomodeling is promising to disseminate behavioranalytic intervention, in a less resource demanding way. Subsequent research should improve the intervention package here described, in order to obtain better results and provide a tool to disseminate behavior analytic intervention to wider portions of the affected population.