Case study: Training a mother of child with autism on how to provide discrete trial teaching

Abstract

It is significant that parents of children with autism participate in the process of education of their children. In this study, the effects of ADOSEP, which is a family education program prepared to teach parents how to use a research-based discrete trial method, on teaching behaviors of a mother of a child with autism through discrete trial were examined. The results of the study indicated, that mother of child with autism attained the behavior of instructing through discrete trial and she demonstrated this behavior with her own child in her house. Participant mother of the study was pleased with taking place in the program and becoming systematically functional with her son.