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Online Application of a Home-Administered Parent-Mediated Program for Children with ASD

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The aim of the chapter is to present an online application of a home-administered parent-mediated program for children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for development and enhancement of their communication and language skills. The program is organized in modules and is administered within a 12-week range. It includes the following components: a short text, coupled with a picture that illustrates it (plot picture); visual cards for the target words per module, related to the text (nouns, verbs and adjectives). Every module has different text and visual cards, but same tasks are to be performed on a daily basis, targeting impressive/expressive language; discourse abilities, wh-questions; nominative function, pragmatics and generalization. The instructional component for parents involves activities within the educational e-platform Moodle, where each component is interactively introduced and demo videos showing how to perform the tasks are available in order to ensure the correct performance at home and make sure instructions are properly followed. On the e-platform there are clear instructions for use, methods for reinforcement, prompting and coping with undesired behaviors. The program instructive module is presented with written text, as well as video files. Parents can virtually meet a specialist, and request feedback, based on video task performance. The administration for the Program follows a strict schedule, also available in Moodle. The Program has been administered with 20 children with ASD and their families, and some of the results are presented hereby.

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    Margarita Stankova, Tsveta Kamenski, Polina Mihova & Todor Datchev

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Stankova, M., Kamenski, T., Mihova, P., Datchev, T. (2022). Online Application of a Home-Administered Parent-Mediated Program for Children with ASD. In: Lim, CP., Chen, YW., Vaidya, A., Mahorkar, C., Jain, L.C. (eds) Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83620-7_6

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