The Lidcombe Program Treatment Guide specifies that the clinician watches the parent giving verbal contingences during each clinic visit and gives the parent feedback. Are there any exceptions to that routine?

The Lidcombe Program Treatment Guide specifies that the clinician watches the parent giving verbal contingences during each clinic visit and gives the parent feedback. Are there any exceptions to that routine?

It is a general rule to watch the parent giving verbal contingencies during each clinic visit. However, towards the end of Stage 1, the speech-language pathologist may judge it to be more useful to spend the time during a clinic visit discussing the treatment and problem solving. However recommended that the speech-language pathologist does allow two weeks to lapse without watching the parent give verbal contingencies during two consecutive visits.

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