The Use of Videotape Self-Monitoring to Facilitate Interactive Intervention in Speech-Language Therapy with Preschool Children with Autism

ABSTRACT

This article describes the outcomes of a videotape self-monitoring project involving two graduate student clinicians enrolled in a clinical practicum in a speech-language pathology program. The goal of the project was to increase the clinicians' use of child-centered, interaction-promoting, and language-promoting strategies while interacting with preschool children with autism. The graduate student clinicians viewed videotapes of their weekly therapy sessions to identify and self-monitor their use of the interactive strategies with the children. The supervisees' and supervisor's ratings of the videotaped sessions were compared to each other and to the videotaped observational data. The outcomes are discussed from a developmental perspective for both supervisor and supervisees.

KEYWORDS:

• Autism
• interactive intervention
• preschool children
• speech-language therapy
• supervision
• videotaped self-monitoring

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was funded in part through PSC-CUNY award 35–5235 to the first author.

The authors thank the graduate student clinicians, the parents of the child participants, and the children who participated in the project. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Irene Torres, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Olena Kopylenko-Korrol. The authors would also like to thank Elaine Geller, Luigi Girolametto, and Tim Gura for their comments on an earlier draft of this report.

Notes

Note: Time 1 included the first two sessions (weeks 1 and 2) and Time 2 included the last two sessions (weeks 9 and 10).

S = Student Clinician.

C = Clinical Supervisor.

Note: Time 1 included the first two sessions (weeks 1 and 2) and Time 2 included the last two sessions (weeks 9 and 10).

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Notes on contributors

Susan E. Longtin

Susan E. Longtin, PhD, CCC-SLP is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communications Arts and Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Renee Laura Fabus

Renee Laura Fabus, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communications Arts and Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.