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

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS · Dec 14, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is exploring how training parents to use video modeling can help teach social skills to young children with developmental delays. Video modeling involves showing videos of someone demonstrating specific social behaviors, which parents can then use to guide their child's learning at home. The study aims to find out how effectively parents can learn to use this method and whether it helps their children play and communicate more with them.

To participate, parents must speak English and be willing to engage in training sessions and interviews. Their child should be between 3 and 5.5 years old, have a developmental delay, and be able to use simple phrases or imitate actions. Families will commit to about 2-5 hours each week for 2-5 months, which will include in-home sessions and Zoom meetings. This is a great opportunity for families looking to enhance their child's social skills in a supportive environment.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria
• • Parent
• • English speaking
• • Must to participate in in-home parent training, willing to participate in video interviews, willing to participate in video recorded play sessions
• • Only one parent in the home will participate
• • At least 18 years old and able to consent to participate in study
• • Child
• • between the ages 3 and 5.5
• • have a developmental delay as defined by Individuals with Disability Education Act
• • demonstrate a need for social skills intervention with ASQ:SE-2 scoring below cutoff or in the monitoring zone.
• • shows the ability to use 1 to 2-word phrases
• • imitates 10 actions and 10 words
• • attends to a video for 3 minutes
• • Exclusion criteria
• • English is not a primary language spoken at home
• • the home is unsafe (Defined as violence witnessed in the home, drug or alcohol use while researcher is in the home, and non-service animals in the intervention area.)
• • the child does not display minimum levels of language (e.g., 1 to 2 word phrases), imitation (e.g., 10 gestures 10 words) and/or attention (e.g., 3 minutes attending to a screen)
• • the child does not show social skills delays ASQ:SE-2 scoring above the cutoff.