NCT04747210

Contextual Coaching Versus Training Workshop for Assistants in Special Education.

Improving Students' Participation in Daily Living Skills Through Contextual Coaching One-on-one for Special Needs Assistants.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Zaragoza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Special Need Assistants/paraprofessionals serve an essential role in special education to support children with multiple disabilities, but they often lack adequate training and supervision. The study aims to examine the effects of the coaching program for assistants compared to a workshop outside working hours and evaluate the outcomes in students and assistants. The second aim is to measure fidelity implementation of coaching practices and if the intervention was participation-based.

Detailed description

This study addresses the training needs of assistants to minimize participation barriers of the students. The schools will be assigned to one of two groups: both groups will receive a 10 hours training workshop; only the intervention group will receive coaching one-to-one. The duration and number of coaching sessions will depend on the caregivers' time available, daily routines, and goals. Coaching sessions will be recorded for the assessment of treatment fidelity.

Conditions

• Disabled Persons
• Caregiver

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	contextual one-on-one coaching	Training workshop and coaching one-on-one
BEHAVIORAL	Trainig workshop	Ten-hour training workshop.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2019-02-01
• First posted: 2021-02-10
• Last updated: 2021-02-10