Abstract
BackgroundThis study was a follow up pilot study to investigate whether the mobile app Map4speech (Law, Neihart, & Dutt, 2018), originally developed for parent training, could also increase intervention fidelity among preschool special educators. MethodA multiple baseline design was conducted with four preschool teachers to examine the effects of the mobile-app-enabled program in improving their intervention fidelity in naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) for young children with ASD. ResultsResults indicated that teachers who participated in the post training intervention attained high intervention fidelity of implementation (84–97%) compared to their baseline percentage of intervention fidelity (42–54%). Teachers’ acceptability of mobile-app-enabled training program was moderate, between 60–70%. Results indicated that mobile-app-enabled training can be a promising means to raise teachers’ intervention fidelity in autism intervention. Results also highlighted the usefulness and importance of having an effective andragogical framework in mobile learning design to produce lasting change of intervention behaviors. ConclusionsTechnology-enabled training has the potential to serve as an innovative solution to the shortage of ASD professional training.
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