**5. Conclusions**

However, with present evidence obtained from a sizable group of parents and increasing the prevalence rate of ASD globally and in developing countries, the service system in the developing countries faces increasing barriers to meet the needs of parents and individuals with ASD. Of all available support and service delivery approaches, the online training course model has provided some basic evidence to support its potential to address many challenges associated with caregiving for people with ASD. Although parents who dropped provide valuable insights regarding financial, technical, and ethical challenges facing online training courses. Application of the online training course and using telecommunication and mobile-based similar services should be strengthened via supervision and guidance of approved ethical considerations and protocols.

For families in the most rural parts of the country, we need a better understanding of whether provider or caregiver training is feasible or effective when delivered entirely through the online training course. Specifically, we need to know whether such families have access to smartphones, computers, webcams, and Internet or clinical sites equipped with such video-conferencing technology to facilitate online training course encounters. Nevertheless, parents should be notified that online training course is not considered to be substituted with the in-person daycare services as it is echoed in the ideas of some parents who dropped out from the course; however, at present addressing parents concerned regarding meeting children with ASD rehabilitation and educational needs in a safe and healthy environment is the main focus of the service providers. The described model for care provision has the purpose of being considered as an effective choice and does not have the purpose of replacing all aspects of the services in which some of them are preferable in-person.

### **Acknowledgements**

I wish to thank the caregivers and daycare centers who actively helped me in implementing the program. Particularly the following professionals:

1.Maryam Poursaid-Mohammad from the Daily Rehabilitation Centre Section, Iranian State Welfare Organization (ISWO), Tehran.

*Online Training for Parents of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders during COVID-19… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102949*

