Behavior Skills Training of a Caregiver of a Child with Autism

Empowering Caregivers: Enhancing Skill Acquisition in Children with Autism

Abstract

Teaching the correct administration of skills to the parents of children with special needs is of vital importance. Focusing on a caregiver and their empowerment by teaching the required skills to teach their children can have significant effects on the prognosis of child. Training the caregiver to teach their child can be instrumental in a country with limited number of center based services. Programs with caregiver trainings have yielded better results and outcomes for the child.In the present study a parent was taught how to administer trials for teaching his child non-contextual instruction. The results indicated that the parent of the child was able to deliver the instruction and it was observed that the rate of acquisition of skills by a child through proper parent training was increased.