Providing a parent-administered outcome measure in a bilingual family of a father and a mother of two adolescents with ASD: brief report.
Laura Del Hoyo Soriano, Lauren Bullard, Angela John Thurman and 2 others
PMID 34170787WHAT IT FOUND
Two bilingual parents learned to administer a language sampling task in English after training in Spanish via telehealth.
Both reached high fidelity scores, but they preferred a clinician perform the actual assessment rather than serving as the examiner themselves.
Key findings
01Both parents achieved high fidelity scores during the formal test and retest administrations after training in their native language while administering the task in their second language.
02Despite the successful training, both parents initially preferred having a professional clinician complete the testing instead of acting as the examiner.
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What it does not show
This is a single case report involving one family, so the findings cannot be generalized to other families or populations. The study did not evaluate the quality of the language samples produced by the children, only the parents' ability to follow the script. The parents' initial preference against being the examiner indicates that feasibility of training does not guarantee acceptability of the method in practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this as evidence that parent-administered assessments are preferred or equally valid to clinician-administered ones. The parents successfully learned the task but explicitly stated they would rather have a professional do it, and this single case cannot predict how other families will respond.