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PYRAMIDAL PARENT TRAINING BY PEERS
Author(s) -
Neef Nancy A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1995.28-333
Subject(s) - psychology , generalization , training (meteorology) , parent training , developmental psychology , dreyfus model of skill acquisition , professional development , medical education , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pedagogy , medicine , intervention (counseling) , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , meteorology , economic growth , economics
This study replicated a pyramidal model of parent training by peers and compared its effects with training by a professional with 26 parents of children with disabilities. A multiple probe design across 3 tiers of parents showed that both types of training produced acquisition, maintenance, and to varying extents, generalization of parents' teaching skills, with concomitant increases in the children's performance in most cases. Improvements were comparable for parents trained by a professional or by peers, and for parents who did and did not serve as peer trainers.