title: Teaching students with developmental disabilities to operate an iPod Touch(®) to listen to music.
abstract: We evaluated an intervention procedure for teaching three students with developmental disabilities to independently operate a portable multimedia device (i.e., an iPod Touch(®)) to listen to music. The intervention procedure included the use of video modeling, which was presented on the same iPod Touch(®) that the students were taught to operate to listen to music. Four phases (i.e., baseline, intervention, fading, and follow-up) were arranged in accordance with a delayed multiple-probe across participants design. During baseline, the students performed from 25 to 62.5% of the task analyzed steps correctly. With intervention, all three students correctly performed 80-100% of the steps and maintained this level of performance when video modeling was removed and during follow-up. The findings suggest that the video modeling procedure was effective for teaching the students to independently operate a portable multimedia device to access age-appropriate leisure content.
authors.affiliation: School of Educational Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. debora.kagohara@vuw.ac.nz
authors.forename: Debora M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Kagohara
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sigafoos
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Achmadi
authors.forename: Larah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: van der Meer
authors.forename: Mark F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: Giulio E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lancioni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D055539:MP3-Player; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D055815:Young Adult