Pivotal Response Training
I´m in collaboration with some of my colleagues are planning to do a project about teaching parents of children receiving EIBI to use Pivotal Response Interventions at home and in community settings.
The background for this project is that the children we supervise receives EIBI in regular kindergartens, and our EIBI has a strong discrete trail component. Of course we also recommend the staff at the kindergartens to use other behavioral techniques as Incidental Teaching and other naturalistic methods as well, but due to the ease of implementing there is often a great number of discrete trails. And due to the hours of the kindergartens the children do no get more than about 25 hours EIBI a week.
As we want the children to receive as close to 40 hours pr week as possible we have encouraged the parents to do 10 – 15 hours of EIBI at home. But our experience shows us that this is difficult for many families to implement. There could be a number of reasons for this, but the lack of material (it´s in the kindergarten), difficulties in implementing discrete trails in the family life and routines are some likely reasons.
Based on this experience we are planning to do a project where we teach the parents, in a group format, to use pivotal response techniques in their daily routines, to see if we both can utilize the unique features of targeting pivotal behaviors, and get the number of hours to become greater, possible through the day. As I heard Bobby Newman say once: you can´t do 40 hours of ABA, it is a way of interacting and you do it all the time (not his exact words).
We would of course hear from others doing this kind of teaching, and get comments on ours plans. So please feel free to comment, or e-mail me.
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