title: An automatic prompting instrument to increase task-related responding in low-functioning individuals.
abstract: The present study was aimed at developing and assessing an automatic prompting instrument with three multihandicapped students who showed breaks in performance. The effects of the instrument were compared with the effects of manual prompting with simple tasks involving locomotion. The results indicated that manual and instrument prompting were both successful in reducing the amount of time spent in breaks. The effects of the instrument were replicated within subjects. The same effects were still visible during a follow-up assessment. The reliability and durability of those effects as well as the practical implications of automatic prompting are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lancioni
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Dijk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Driessen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Manders
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D010812:Physical Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation*