strategies for remote parent counseling slides.pdf

6/3/20

LET'S TALK TO PARENTS:

STRATEGIES FOR REMOTE

PARENT COUNSELING AND TRAINING

Dr. Rhea Paul, PH.D., CCC-SLP
Prof. and Chair, Department of Communication Disorders, Sacred Heart University

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Name four strategies for parent counseling.
• Discuss characteristics of adult learners for use in guiding parents to carry over language activities in the home.
• Name three evidence-based adult learning strategies.
• Discuss the role of parent counseling with the work of the SLP.

EXAMPLES OF OPEN AND CLOSED QUESTIONS

• From an early childhood session: "Do you ever play with him?"
• From a parent of a 9-year-old struggling with reading: "What book does he like the best?"
• Preferred: "What does he enjoy doing when you play with him?"

EXAMPLES OF SOLUTION-FOCUSED QUESTIONS

• To a client: "How did you have that fluent conversation with your friend?"
• To a parent: "That’s a great idea, how did you think of that?"

ANDRAGOGY (KNOWLES, 2014)

Teaching Strategies for Adult Learners

• Scaffold: Introduce resources and skills that learners are likely to know or have already done.
• Acknowledge parents’ life experience and prior knowledge.
• Provide opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, parent-parent discussions, whenever possible (online).

EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR ANDRAGOGY (MCCALL, PADRON, & ANDREWS, 2018)

COUNSELING AND TRAINING AT A DISTANCE

• Alternate direct service (1/week) with parent-delivered telehealth Tx 1x/week effective with ASD (Baharav & Reiser, 2010).
• Video conferencing combined with online instruction to support parental learning and improve child behaviors was somewhat effective with ASD (Vismara et al., 2013).
• Parent training led to improvement when child book-reading; parent-child conversations; and parent-child writing to improve children’s language and literacy in language delay (Reese et al., 2010).

PARENT TRAINING: SUMMARY

• Collateral behaviors, such as maladaptive behavior, joint attention, and imitation seem to respond to parent-delivered intervention in children with ASD.
• For non-autistic, more general language and intellectual delays, focus on child book-reading; parent-child conversations around specific topics and vocabulary; and parent-child writing.

PARENT RESOURCES

• Books: Let’s Talk: Navigating Social Communicative Supports for your Young Child with ASD by R. Paul & D. Fahmi
  Loving Lindsay by L. Atwell
  Parent-to-Parent Handbook by B. Santelli et al.

• Media:

  • Podcast: Let’s Talk about Super Special Kids and Cake
  • Podcast: Parenting Special Needs

• Websites:

  • https://www.parentcenterhub.org
  • https://www.cec.sped.org
  • http://www.familyvoices.org
  • https://fcsn.org
  • Zine: http://www.eparent.com

REFERENCES

Andrews, D. (in press). Counseling and clinical communication. In Paul, R., & Simmons, E. S. Introduction to Clinical Methods in Communication Disorders (4th ed.). Paul H Brookes Publishing.
Baharav, E., & Reiser, C. (2010). Using telepractice in parent training in early autism. Telemedicine and E-Health, 16, 727 –731.
Knowles, M. (2014). The Adult Learner: The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development (8th edition). N. Y. Routledge.
Lang, R., Machalicek, W., Rispoli, M., & Regester, A. (2009). Training parents to implement communication interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 3(3), 174–190.
Luterman, D. (2018). The Counseling Relationship. The ASHA Leader.
Reese, E., Sparks, A., & Leyva, D. (2010). A Review of parent interventions for preschool children’s language and emergent literacy. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 10(1), 97–117.
Vismara, L. A., McCormick, C., Young, G. S., Nadhan, A., & Monlux, K. (2013). Preliminary Findings of a Telehealth Approach to Parent Training in Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(12), 2953–2969.

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