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An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Televised Home Instruction: Teaching Parents to be Trainers of Their Preschool Handicapped Children

St. Meinard College

Robert J. Currie

Midland Achievement Center, Texas

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate three modes of home-based parent training, designed to teach parents to be the primary therapist of their preschool handicapped children. Subjects (N = 40) were rondomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions. Subjects assigned to conditions 2, 3, and 4 were given instructional materials necessary for teaching their handicapped children four developmental skills that they had not yet acquired. Pretest and posttest data were collected on parental training skills. A 4 x 4 x 2 ANOVA for repeated measures supported three conclusions: (1) parents do learn the behavioral strategies necessary to train their handicapped children; (2) televised programming is equally efficient as print media In transmitting the bellavioral strategies which parents employ; and (3) when televised programming is combined with the traditional print media, parental apprehension of training skills is significantly better than with either media alone.

Journal of Early Intervention, Vol. 6, No. 1, 36-41 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/105381518200600105


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