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- Title
Computer-based teaching of word construction and reading in two students with developmental disabilities.
- Authors
Sugasawara, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Jun-ichi
- Abstract
Students with developmental disabilities often have difficulty in learning the systematic relations between syllables (auditory stimuli) and characters (visual stimuli) required for reading. Two students with developmental disabilities participated in the present study which used computer-based teaching applied in the home. We examined whether the students could read individual Japanese Hiragana characters after training with a constructional MTS procedure with differential outcome (DO) that was designed to teach word-construction for pictured sample stimuli. The DO procedure provided the differential stimulus (in this case spoken syllables) after response selection. The results showed that the students not only acquired appropriate word-construction responses through this task, they also learned to read Hiragana characters without direct training of this skill. The results are discussed in terms of the effect of the constructional MTS procedure with DO on the acquisition and transfer of reading characters and the applicability of computer-based home teaching. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; COMPUTER assisted instruction; READING disability; CHILDREN with learning disabilities; EDUCATIONAL technology; PEOPLE with developmental disabilities; EDUCATION
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 4, p263
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.248