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- Title
Helping people with multiple disabilities manage an assembly task and mobility via technology-regulated sequence cues and contingent stimulation.
- Authors
Lancioni, Giulio E.; Singh, Nirbhay N.; O'Reilly, Mark F.; Sigafoos, Jeff; Campodonico, Francesca; Zimbaro, Carmen; Alberti, Gloria; Trubia, Grazia; Zagaria, Tommasa
- Abstract
Purpose: This study evaluated the impact of a technology-aided program providing sequence/space cues and contingent stimulation on object assembling and mobility for eight participants with multiple disabilities. Method: The technology-aided program was introduced according to a non-concurrent multiple baseline design across participants. Pipe components were distributed over different desks. The program served to (a) guide the participants to collect and assemble those components in the right sequence via verbal or light cues automatically emitted by electronic boxes, and (b) deliver preferred stimulation as the participantsput away a completed pipe. Results: The participants increased the mean frequencies of pipes assembled and put away accurately and independently from (virtually) zero during the baseline to between about 6 and 14 per 15-min session during the technology-aided program. This performance was maintained at a follow-up check. Twenty-four staff members surveyed about the program provided favorable ratings of it. Conclusions: These data indicate that the program may be an effective tool for supporting people like the participants of this study.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with disabilities; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SOCIAL mobility
- Publication
Life Span & Disability, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
1721-0151
- Publication type
Article