ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of domestic and foreign ABA experts on social communication of ASD infants and what ABA mediation factors, methods, and strategic support are needed for parents of ASD infants to directly mediate their children's social communication skills in the future. To this end, 48 study participants were recruited overseas through snowball sampling, and after guiding 72 institutions and 112 individual ABA experts in Korea through email or SNS rules about the purpose of the study, an online questionnaire was produced and distributed to 43 institutions and 98 individual ABA experts who accepted requests for cooperation, and the final recovery rate was 64%. Frequency analysis and descriptive statistics were conducted using SPSS 29.0 for the total collected survey data. The results of the study are 1) recognition of the importance of intervention regarding social communication of ASD infants 2) recognition of ABA strategies that are effective in mediating social communication skills 3) recognition of ABA theories and strategies that parents should acquire 4) recognition of the effective parental education and training methods 5) recognition of the parental education and training environment. Based on the results of the study, the basic elements necessary for the parental execution ABA program were proposed to improve the social communication skills of ASD infants.

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