Parent-mediated intervention can enhance parents’ competence in supporting parent–child social interactions. Research and current policy have highlighted the importance of building family capacity in supporting parents to help children with autism develop social communication abilities. Parents who experienced parent-mediated interventions have reported reduced parenting stress; however, few studies have examined parents’ learning outcomes from such interventions for children with autism. We assessed parents’ learning outcomes from participation in the Joint Attention Mediated Learning (JAML) intervention and explored differences in parents’ application of mediated learning principles between intervention and control groups. We used parent–child interaction videos to analyze parents’ application of mediated learning principles with their toddlers in home settings and found significant group differences in parents’ application of the principles at postintervention. Parents in the intervention group showed significant improvements in their competence in mediating child learning in unstructured parent–child interactions, but there were no significant gains for parents in the control group.

家长介导的干预可以提高家长支持亲子社交互动的能力。研究和现行政策强调了建立家庭能力以支持父母帮助自闭症儿童发展社交沟通能力的重要性。经历过父母中介干预的父母报告说，养育压力减轻了；然而，很少有研究检查父母对自闭症儿童的此类干预措施的学习结果。我们评估了家长参与联合注意力中介学习 (JAML) 干预的学习成果，并探讨了家长在干预组和对照组之间应用中介学习原则的差异。我们使用亲子互动视频来分析父母在家庭环境中对幼儿应用中介学习原则的情况，并发现父母在干预后对这些原则的应用存在显着的群体差异。干预组的父母在非结构化亲子互动中调解孩子学习的能力显着提高，但对照组的父母没有显着提高。