The Effect of Systematic Prompting on the Acquisition of Five Muscle-Strengthening Exercises by Adults With Mild Intellectual Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Obrusnikova ◽  
Haley M. Novak ◽  
Albert R. Cavalier

Adults with intellectual disability have significantly lower musculoskeletal fitness than their peers without a disability. Appropriate instructional strategies are needed to facilitate their acquisition and maintenance of musculoskeletal fitness. In this multiple-baseline across-participants single-subject study, the authors evaluated the effects of a multicomponent package that included a video-enhanced system of least-to-most prompts on the acquisition of 5 muscle-strengthening exercises in 3 women with mild intellectual disability, age 24–37 yr. Results show substantive gains in correct and independent performance of steps in the 5 exercises during the treatment condition. The improved performance was maintained 2 wk after the last treatment session and in a large YMCA gym. The study suggests that use of the video-enhanced system of least-to-most prompts can lead to improved acquisition and maintenance of muscle-strengthening exercises by adults with mild intellectual disability.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Efika Fiona ◽  
Wahyu Indianti

Intellectual disability is deficits in intellectual functions, adaptive functions, and these deficits occure during the developmental period (before the age of eighteen). Emotion regulation related to the functions and become the problems for children with mild intellectual disability. Emotion regulation is individual’s ability to refrain himself from improper behavior concerning negative and positive emotions that he feels, to manage himself so that he does not depend on his mood condition, to calm down himself when strong emotion arises, and to focus his attention when strong emotion appears. Emotion regulation is extremely needed for adaptation in maintaining relations with other people. The one of interventions that can be used to handle emotion regulation problem for children with intellectual disability is by giving emotion regulation skills system training. This research uses single subject design. The result of this research shows that emotion regulation skills system training gives positive impacts on cognitive and behavior aspects of the subject. The application of these skills in daily life is related to the roles of people around the subject who can understand how to apply the skills and remind the subject


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Dewi Kumalasari ◽  
Farida Kurniawati

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Behavioral Skills Training (BST) program in improving personal safety skills for a Down syndrome adolescent with mild intellectual disability. Personal safety is defined as an ability to recognize touch appropriateness, including four self-protective skills, consisting of resisting, removing, telling others, and reporting about any inappropriate touch she/he experiences. The single-subject design was administered in three days. The results show that the program was effective to improved subject’s personal safety skills and reached 97 % of the maximum score. The subject was able to master the skills of recognizing, resisting, removing and telling others with 100% score, while on the reporting skill, the obtained score was 83%.  Rerunning the program, specifically with reporting skill as the target, has been recommended to improve reporting skill. Overall, to improve the effectiveness of the program, in situ training, training for trainers, and providing reinforcements are suggested.


1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenyatta O. Rivers ◽  
Linda J. Lombardino ◽  
Cynthia K. Thompson

The effects of training in letter-sound correspondences and phonemic decoding (segmenting and blending skills) on three kindergartners' word recognition abilities were examined using a single-subject multiple-baseline design across behaviors and subjects. Whereas CVC pseudowords were trained, generalization to untrained CVC pseudowords, untrained CVC real words, untrained CV and VC pseudowords, and untrained CV and VC real words were assessed. Generalization occurred to all of the untrained constructions for two of the three subjects. The third subject did not show the same degree of generalization to VC pseudowords and real words; however, after three training sessions, this subject read all VC constructions with 100% accuracy. Findings are consistent with group training studies that have shown the benefits of decoding training on word recognition and spelling skills and with studies that have demonstrated the effects of generalization to less complex structures when more complex structures are trained.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Winda Januarti

Tujuan penelitian untuk memperoleh gambaran secara empiris, sehingga mampu melakukan analisis tentang Asertive Training terhadap peningkatan motivasi belajar anak yang berperilaku maladaptif di Kelurahan Tamansari Kecamatan Bandung Wetan Kota Bandung. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode eksperimen melalui rancangan subyek tunggal (single subject design) dan menggunakan model multiple baseline cross subjects untuk mengukur target perilaku. Subyek dalam penelitian ini adalah subyek satu yakni AM; subyek dua yakni JR; dan subyek tiga yakni NJ. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara, observasi dan studi dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Asertive Training berpengaruh terhadap peningkatan motivasi belajar anak berperilaku maladaptif. Tingkatan pengaruh pada masing-masing subyek bervariasi dengan subyek AM dengan skor tertinggi yakni aspek komitmen, subyek JR dengan skor tertinggi yakni aspek komitmen beajar dan inisiatif belajar, subyek NJ dengan skor tertinggi yakni aspek inisiatif dan optimis belajar. Secara keseluruhan JR merupakan subyek yang memiliki tingkat pengaruh tertinggi dari intervensi Asertive Traning terhadap motivasi belajar, diantara kedua subyek yang lain. Hal ini tidak terlepas dari faktor-faktor pendukung subyek. Melalui intervensi Asertive Training, anak mampu mengelola emosi, perasaan dan tingkah laku yang berkaitan dengan pendidikan. Kata Kunci: Anak, Motivasi Belajar, Assertive Training, Perilaku Maladaptif


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Dika Permatadiraja

Abstrak Tujuan penelitian untuk memperoleh gambaran secara empiris, sehingga mampu melakukan analisis tentang Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) terhadap peningkatan kelekatan anak dan ibu asuh di SOS Children’s Village Jakarta. Tahapan yang dilakukan melalui dua fase yakni Child-Directed Interaction (CDI) serta Parent-Directed Interaction (PDI).Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode eksperimen melalui rancangan subjek tunggal (single subject design) dan menggunakan model multiple baseline cross subjects untuk mengukur target perilaku. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah keluarga satu yakni PH dan ibu SU; keluarga dua yakni NM dan ibu MA; dan keluarga tiga yakni NA dan ibu AR. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara, observasi dan studi dokumentasi.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa PCIT berpengaruh terhadap peningkatan kelekatan anak dan ibu asuh. Tingkatan pengaruh pada masing-masing subjek bervariasi dengan subjek PH dan ibu SU memiliki pengaruh tertinggi pada aspek kehangatan, subjek NM dan ibu MA memiliki pengaruh tertinggi pada aspek kehangatan dan ketanggapan; serta NA dan ibu AR memiliki pengaruh tertinggi pada aspek rasa aman. Secara keseluruhan NM dan ibu MA merupakan subjek yang memiliki tingkat pengaruh tertinggi dari intervensi PCIT terhadap kelekatan, diantara kedua subjek yang lain. Hal ini tidak terlepas dari faktor-faktor pendukung subjek. Hasil dari peningkatan kelekatan berdampak pada gaya pengasuhan yang penuh dengan kehangatan serta membentuk pola kelekatan ibu asuh terhadap anak yang selalu mendampingi, sensitif, responsif, penuh cinta dan kasih sayang.Kata kunci: anak, kelekatan, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, pengasuhan keluarga pengganti


2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  

During the last years, muscle strengthening exercises have been included as an essential part in youth physical activity guidelines of national and international health organisations. It is well-documented that strength training is effective in improving physical fitness and promoting health and psycho-social well-being. Therefore, the purpose of this review article is to present empirical evidence on the effectiveness of strength training in children and adolescents. Additionally, and with reference to an established youth physical development model, conceptual and methodological aspects of safe and effective strength training in youth will be discussed and specific practical recommendations will be presented.


Author(s):  
Meena Balasubramanian ◽  
Alexander J. M. Dingemans ◽  
Shadi Albaba ◽  
Ruth Richardson ◽  
Thabo M. Yates ◽  
...  

AbstractWitteveen-Kolk syndrome (OMIM 613406) is a recently defined neurodevelopmental syndrome caused by heterozygous loss-of-function variants in SIN3A. We define the clinical and neurodevelopmental phenotypes related to SIN3A-haploinsufficiency in 28 unreported patients. Patients with SIN3A variants adversely affecting protein function have mild intellectual disability, growth and feeding difficulties. Involvement of a multidisciplinary team including a geneticist, paediatrician and neurologist should be considered in managing these patients. Patients described here were identified through a combination of clinical evaluation and gene matching strategies (GeneMatcher and Decipher). All patients consented to participate in this study. Mean age of this cohort was 8.2 years (17 males, 11 females). Out of 16 patients ≥ 8 years old assessed, eight (50%) had mild intellectual disability (ID), four had moderate ID (22%), and one had severe ID (6%). Four (25%) did not have any cognitive impairment. Other neurological symptoms such as seizures (4/28) and hypotonia (12/28) were common. Behaviour problems were reported in a minority. In patients ≥2 years, three were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and four with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We report 27 novel variants and one previously reported variant. 24 were truncating variants; three were missense variants and one large in-frame gain including exons 10–12.


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