An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Televised Home Instruction: Teaching Parents to be Trainers of Their Preschool Handicapped Children

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Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate three modes of home-based parent training, designed to teach parents to be the primary therapist of their preschool handicapped children. Subjects (N = 40) were rondomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions. Subjects assigned to conditions 2, 3, and 4 were given instructional materials necessary for teaching their handicapped children four developmental skills that they had not yet acquired. Pretest and posttest data were collected on parental training skills. A 4 x 4 x 2 ANOVA for repeated measures supported three conclusions: (1) parents do learn the behavioral strategies necessary to train their handicapped children; (2) televised programming is equally efficient as print media In transmitting the bellavioral strategies which parents employ; and (3) when televised programming is combined with the traditional print media, parental apprehension of training skills is significantly better than with either media alone.