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The present study evaluates the effects of a behavioral skill training package on parent implementation of discrete trial teaching with their children with autism spectrum disorder. Three mothers of children with autism participated in the study. The training package improved implementation for all three of the mothers. Moreover, these improvements generalized to skills that were not taught during training, maintained during follow-up probes, and resulted in improvements in child behavior.
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Eid, A.M., Aljaser, S.M., AlSaud, A.N. et al. Training Parents in Saudi Arabia to Implement Discrete Trial Teaching with their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Behav Analysis Practice 10, 402–406 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-016-0167-3
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