Use of assistive technology with young children with severe and profound disabilities.
An alternating treatment design was used with two subjects in their preschool settings. During the four phases of the study, the subjects received treatment with the switch alone, switch-activated computer programs, switch-activated toys, and alternating sessions with the two devices. Thirty-two dat...
| Published in: | Infant-Toddler Intervention Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 91 - 113 |
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Cengage Delmar Learning
1995 Mar
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