Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Developmental Disabilities (DD) often have deficits in social, play, and language which often require substantial support to develop the skills. Caregivers and educators are often tasked with developing these skills and working to transfer those acquired skill sets across settings and people (i.e. parents, day care workers, family members). Oftentimes, these naturally occurring skills are more challenging to teach since they require ongoing attention, interaction, and skill promotion from the educators and caregivers. As a result, these skills are sometimes underdeveloped or not worked on as frequently, which in turn, presents greater hardships on families and caregivers. The current study used a multiple treatment design to evaluate the efficacy of three different interventions on promoting and maintaining staff to client interactions during breaks. Treatment one included the antecedent intervention of posted rules; treatment two included the consequence intervention of posted graphical data; the final treatment was a function based treatment (based upon the results of the PDC-HS) which included direct manipulation of immediate consequences for staff to client interactions. Results showed that staff performed at a higher, and more consistent rate, when the treatment was function-based and directly/immediately related to their behavior. This simple manipulation shows promise in promoting the development of staff and family responses that are needed to enhance skill sets that are sometimes more challenging, yet necessary, to develop.

患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 和其他发育障碍 (DD) 的儿童通常在社交、游戏和语言方面存在缺陷，这通常需要大量支持才能发展技能。照顾者和教育者的任务通常是发展这些技能，并努力将这些获得的技能转移到环境和人（即父母、日托工作者、家庭成员）之间。通常，这些自然发生的技能在教授时更具挑战性，因为它们需要教育者和护理人员的持续关注、互动和技能提升。结果，这些技能有时没有得到充分发展或没有得到充分发挥，这反过来又给家庭和照顾者带来了更大的困难。当前的研究使用多重治疗设计来评估三种不同干预措施在促进和维持员工在休息期间与客户互动方面的功效。处理一包括张贴规则的先行干预；处理二包括张贴图形数据的后果干预；最后的处理是基于功能的处理（基于 PDC-HS 的结果），其中包括直接操纵员工与客户互动的直接后果。结果表明，当治疗是基于功能的并且与他们的行为直接/直接相关时，员工的表现会更高、更稳定。这种简单的操作显示了促进员工和家庭反应发展的前景，这些反应是提高有时更具挑战性的技能所必需的，