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The overall purpose of this session is to educate practitioners about the importance of promoting adaptive behaviors for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Additionally, we present material about how coaching is an effective method to address adaptive behavior as well as information about coaching via telehealth. TeleSCOPE (Telehealth Strategies for Collaborative Occupational Performance Engagement) is a parent training intervention that combines self-directed online educational modules with individualized telehealth coaching sessions to increase child adaptive behavior in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Currently, there is a lack of intervention approaches that directly teach parents to target discrete and specific adaptive behaviors situated in everyday life. While the number of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses is rapidly increasing, available resources to provide intervention services are decreasing (Boyd, Odom, Humphreys, & Sam, 2010). Due to this shortage, alternate service delivery models such as telehealth and self-directed technology-based applications have emerged as evidence-based methods to provide intervention services (Cason, 2009; Cason, Behl, & Ringwalt, 2012). For the current abstract, we report on one of the adaptive behavior skills our study addressed: toilet training. Toilet training is an understudied topic and there is high demand among parents to understand how to address this skill so children can engage in social and academic occupations. This topic demonstrates evidence-based practice, as we use coaching via telehealth to address a vital occupation among young children
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