Caregiver teaching has been a promising methodology to face the arising demand of
individuals diagnosed with developmental delays, especially those with Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This study aimed to develop and evaluate the effect of a
package of instructional videomodeling on the performance accuracy of caregivers in
implementing teaching programs to children diagnosed with ASD. The videos used had,
as essential elements: exhibition of multiple exemplars, subtitles, narrations, and visual
cues throughout the video. A multiple-baseline design across participants was used to
measure the effect of the videomodeling procedure on the performance accuracy of the
caregivers. Three parents of children diagnosed with TEA participated: Alice, Cassio,
and Fernanda, who presented, respectively, 6%, 25%, and 45% average accuracy
throughout baseline measures. After videomodeling procedure, performance accuracy
reached 83%, 88%, and 80% average accuracy. Considering such results, we believe
that the procedure of instructional videomodeling is promising to disseminate behavioranalytic
intervention, in a less resource demanding way. Subsequent research should
improve the intervention package here described, in order to obtain better results and
provide a tool to disseminate behavior analytic intervention to wider portions of the
affected population.
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