With the increase of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) leaving the public school systems with centralized training environments, there needs to be innovation in supporting staff who will find themselves working in various community environments with adolescent or adult learners. Staff training and ongoing supervision is important for enhancing student skill acquisition and long-term maintenance of important life skills. Current day technology has been shown to be effective in augmenting staff training and supervision efforts. The purpose of the current study was to use existing FaceTime® technology to conduct remote live supervision of staff participants who were in the community with adult learners engaged in various learning tasks. Staff were trained on specific instructional protocols to implement, and the staff trainers, miles away, watched and listened to the training being delivered by the staff to the adult participants. When staff made implementation errors, the staff trainer corrected by speaking through the smartphone. Results showed that staff improved their fidelity of implementing the training protocols when distance feedback was provided. The results of this study provide more evidence that distance supervision of staff works and is another available method for training and supervising staff.

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使用远程监控提高工作人员在与自闭症成年人合作时执行协议的保真度

随着越来越多的自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 患者离开拥有集中培训环境的公立学校系统，需要创新支持员工，他们会发现自己在各种社区环境中与青少年或成人学习者一起工作。员工培训和持续监督对于提高学生技能获取和重要生活技能的长期维护非常重要。当今的技术已被证明在加强员工培训和监督工作方面是有效的。当前研究的目的是使用现有的 FaceTime® 技术对社区中的工作人员参与者进行远程实时监督，成人学习者从事各种学习任务。工作人员接受了具体指导协议的培训，工作人员培训师、在数英里之外，观看和聆听工作人员向成年参与者提供的培训。当员工出现实施错误时，员工培训师通过智能手机进行纠正。结果表明，当提供远程反馈时，工作人员提高了他们实施培训协议的忠诚度。本研究的结果提供了更多的证据表明员工远程监督是有效的，并且是培训和监督员工的另一种可用方法。