Using Electronic Activity Schedules to Teach Adults With Disabilities to Ask for Assistance When Needed in a Single-Case Research Design.
Individuals with developmental disabilities sometimes lack functional skills such as asking for help. Sometimes these deficits can extend into the adult years. Although there is an abundance of research on teaching such skills to children, there is a dearth of such research involving adults. Three a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 170 - 182 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194579817&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 194579817 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10983007 5LU jtl: Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions issn: 10983007 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 28 iid: 3 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 194579817 192679275 194579817 194579817 10.1177/10983007251389298 194579817 ppf: 170 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Using Electronic Activity Schedules to Teach Adults With Disabilities to Ask for Assistance When Needed in a Single-Case Research Design. aug: au: Delczeg, Stephanie L. Reinecke, Dana R. Laskowski, Margaret affil: The Arc Mid-Hudson, Kingston, NY, USA sug: subj: Intellectual Disability Rehabilitation Persons with Disabilities Education Help Seeking Behavior Education Assistive Technology Devices Utilization Teaching Methods New York Human Female Male Adult Middle Age Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Task Performance and Analysis Alternative and Augmentative Communication Communication Aids for Persons with Disabilities Education, Special Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Individuals with developmental disabilities sometimes lack functional skills such as asking for help. Sometimes these deficits can extend into the adult years. Although there is an abundance of research on teaching such skills to children, there is a dearth of such research involving adults. Three adult participants diagnosed with disabilities that impaired independent functioning were taught to request help when needed using an electronic activity schedule using a multiple-baseline across participants design conducted in the U.S. state of New York. Each participant was given two electronic activity schedules delivered via PowerPoint on an iPad tablet. The activity schedules were based on tasks that resulted in naturally occurring reinforcers for the participants. While participants independently navigated the activity schedules and completed steps in the activities, they did not request help during steps when materials were unavailable. The addition of interactive prompts to the activity schedules increased help requests from all participants. These prompts consisted of questions with interactive choices for answers that lead to prompts to ask for help as needed. Generalization of asking for help was shown across tasks for one participant, and within tasks for two participants. The implications for continued future research on using electronic activity schedules to present choices for greater independent functioning are discussed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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