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

Parent training will cover the topic of creating social skills, goal setting, creating a video model, how to implement the video model intervention, and the parent-child interaction procedures during play. Parents will learn the steps in the fidelity checklist and demonstrate the steps at 90% proficiency by the end of the training. Parent coaching will continue before and after child intervention sessions.

The child will be recorded for a video model engaging in play at their home. The videos will be created with the parent and researcher in the home. A video using the same materials in the same location will be created depicting the child in a play scenario. The video will be two-to-three minutes in length. Each child will receive at least three sessions of intervention and no more than five sessions of intervention per week.