Collaboration among Parents and Professionals with Discrete Trial Training in the Treatment for Autism.

Abstract

Mississippi State University Abstract: This study evaluates impact of collaborative efforts of parents and school professionals in the treatment of autism in a five-year-old boy. Method of treatment was discrete trial training across settings (e.g., home and school) and change agents were the child's parents, siblings, special education teacher, resource teacher, and speech pathologist. Typical characteristics of autism include per- vasive behavioral deficits and excesses result- ing in inappropriate behavioral patterns. Be- havioral deficits may be observed in the child's