Comparison of two video prompting interventions to teach daily living skills to adolescents with autism |
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| Authors: | Jennifer L Wertalik Richard M Kubina |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, Georgia, USA;2. Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Abstract: | The present study used an adapted alternating treatment design to evaluate and compare the effects of video prompting (VP) and video prompting plus frequency building (VP + FB) to teach daily living skills to three adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Results demonstrated all three students made substantial improvements over their baseline performance using VP and VP + FB. Furthermore, a strong intervention effect emerged for VP and VP + FB conditions when compared to the control task. However, in terms of one intervention proving superior to the other (e.g., VP to VP + FB), the data offer a mixed interpretation with VP + FB affecting changes better for two of the three students. The FB component in the VP + FB produced strong, consistent gains for all students in terms of retention. |
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| Keywords: | autism spectrum disorder daily living skills frequency building video prompting |
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