People with multiple disabilities use assistive technology to perform complex activities at the appropriate time
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Giulio E. Lancioni
, Nirbhay N. Singh
Abstract
Background:
Persons with moderate/severe intellectual and multiple disabilities may have difficulties determining (a) the times of the day when to engage in specific activities and (b) the sequence of steps needed for those activities. Assistive technology might help them with both requirements.
Methods:
This study assessed an assistive technology package to (a) remind three adults with multiple (i.e. intellectual and sensory-motor) disabilities of the activities to carry out at the appropriate times of the day and (b) provide them pictorial instructions for the steps of those activities. It included a Galaxy S-3 mini smartphone (by Samsung) for delivering verbal reminders and a Microsoft Surface RT tablet for presenting pictorial instructions concerning the single steps of the activities programmed. The study was carried out according to a non-concurrent multiple baseline design across participants.
Results:
All three participants were successful in using both components of the technology package and managed to (a) independently start the activities at the scheduled times and (b) perform them with high levels of accuracy (i.e. with mean percentages of correct steps exceeding 90).
Conclusion:
A technology package may enable persons with multiple disabilities to perform complex activities at the appropriate times.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Birth defects and human development
- Original Articles
- Perceived parental differential treatment, cognition, behaviour and family cohesiveness among siblings of children with cerebral palsy? A family-mediated intervention to understand “displaced” children
- Alterations in body composition, capillary glucose and functionality during explosive strength training in older women
- People with multiple disabilities use assistive technology to perform complex activities at the appropriate time
- The relationship between family dining practices, parenting style and family functioning and child learning
- A procedure to correct the effect of heart rate on heart rate variability indices: description and assessment
- Psychological and emotional state of parents having intellectually and developmentally disabled children
- Predictors of quality of life in people with intellectual disability in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The effect of erythropoietin on phosphorus levels during hypoxia reoxygenation injury in rats
- Opportunities for disabled people through ICTs: a perspective from Turkey
- A review of adolescent prevention and positive youth development programs in non-English speaking European countries
- Assessing learning gains of university students in Hong Kong adopting the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+)
- Student feedback on a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development for university students in Hong Kong