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Video Prompts to Teach Daily Living Skills
Focus on Autism and Other Disabilities published a
small, preliminary study on using video prompting with
different fading procedures to teach daily living skills to
two students with developmental disabilities. Video
prompting shows a short video clip of one step of a task,
then the participant completes that step before showing
the video of the next step. Previous research indicates
that video prompting is more effective than video
modeling (video of the entire target behavior all on
one clip) in teaching new skills to individuals with
disabilities.
The participants were two students with intellectual
disabilities. One student was a 14 year old male with
autism and profound intellectual disability. The other
student was a 17 year old male with Prader-Willi
syndrome and moderate intellectual disability. The
daily living skills being taught were window washing
and table washing.
Using an iPod touch, video prompting was used in this study with error correction and two
different fading procedures. One fading procedure consisted of merging video clips into larger
clips following acquisition of the entire skill. The second fading procedure used backward
chunking adding video clips as individual steps were acheived. Statistical analysis revealed:
video prompting with error correction was effective in teaching both daily living skills.
fading the video prompts during the intervention resulted in more rapid learning and higher
maintenance and generalization effects than fading after acquisition.
The researchers may extend this study and compare different fading methods with different
participants.
Reference: Pei-Fang Wu, Helen I. Cannella-Malone, Joe E. Wheaton, and Chris A. Tullis
Using Video Prompting With Different Fading Procedures to Teach Daily Living Skills: A
Preliminary Examination. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities June 2016 31:
129-139, first published on May 20, 2014 doi:10.1177/1088357614533594
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