Home-Based Social Skills Intervention for Young Children With Developmental Delays

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about how parent training can be used to teach a social skills intervention for their young child with developmental delays. Video modeling is a type of technology based intervention that teaches new skills using videos of someone acting out the behavior. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How well do the parent training procedures teach parents all the steps for using video modeling as a social skills intervention?
* Do the children with developmental delays play and communicate more with their parents after the parent uses video modeling as a social skills intervention?

Parent participants will be asked to participate in 3 interviews 30 min to 1 hour each, 2 in-home sessions 1 ½ to 2 hours each, 30 min Zoom sessions 2-3 times per week for 2-5 months

Child participants will participate in 2 in-home sessions 1 ½ to 2 hours each and 30 min Zoom sessions 2-3 times per week for 2-5 months

The time commitment is in ideal conditions, but will be impacted by other participants and parent schedules. The family will be committing to approximately 2-5 hours per week for 2-5 months. Sessions may occur as few as 0 or as many as 5 times per week.

The hypothesis is that the parent training will teach parents all the steps to use video modeling intervention in their home with their young child with a disability. The second hypothesis is that the child with a disability will learn new social skills to play and communicate better in their home with their parent after watching the video models.

Conditions

• Development Delay
• Social Skills
• Parents

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parent Training

Parent training will cover the topic of creating social skills, goal setting, creating a video model, how to implement the video model intervention, and the parent-child interaction procedures during play. Parents will learn the steps in the fidelity checklist and demonstrate the steps at 90% proficiency by the end of the training. Parent coaching will continue before and after child intervention sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

Video Modeling

The child will be recorded for a video model engaging in play at their home. The videos will be created with the parent and researcher in the home. A video using the same materials in the same location will be created depicting the child in a play scenario. The video will be two-to-three minutes in length. Each child will receive at least three sessions of intervention and no more than five sessions of intervention per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Alain Bengochea, PhD · University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-12-31

Primary Completion

2024-04-30

Completion

2024-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations