title: "Say Cheese": teaching photography skills to adults with developmental disabilities.
abstract: We evaluated a video prompting procedure to teach adults with developmental disabilities to take a digital photograph and print it using a laptop computer and a printer. Participants were four men with developmental disabilities. Training was conducted at the participants' residential facility. During baseline, participants were told to take a photograph, but were given no other instruction. During intervention, participants received instruction using a video prompting procedure. Video prompting consisted of watching a clip of each step of the task analysis and then having the opportunity to imitate that step. Video prompting was evaluated using a multiple-probe across participants design. Following acquisition, video prompting was removed to assess maintenance at 2, 4 and 8 weeks and at 6 months. During naturalistic probes, participants had the opportunity to take a picture of their choice of flora, surroundings or persons. All four participants learned to take and print a digital photograph with the video prompting procedures. The skills generalized to novel situations and were maintained at each follow-up probe. These data suggest that video prompting may be an effective instructional strategy for teaching digital photography skills to adults with developmental disabilities.
authors.affiliation: St. Cloud State University, Community Psychology (Behavior Analysis), 720 Fourth Avenue South EB B210, St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498, United States. cdedrisinha@stcloudstate.edu
authors.forename: Chaturi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Edrisinha
authors.forename: Mark F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: Ha Young
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sigafoos
authors.forename: Giulio E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lancioni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D010781:Photography / Q000193:education* / Q000295:instrumentation; D014743:Videotape Recording