Creating Inclusive Functional Content Using Dot-Codes

Education and Technology Support for Children and Young Adults With ASD and Learning Disabilities - Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7053-1.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 149-166

Author(s):

Jenn Gallup ◽

Celal Perihan ◽

Yoshie Tatsuma ◽

Shigeru Ikuta

Keyword(s):

Home Environment ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Functional Skills ◽

Content Areas ◽

Support Functional ◽

Transfer Of Skills ◽

Functional Content

The purpose of this chapter is to assist educators in understanding how to create handmade content to support functional skills, following a multi-step recipe will serve as the example, while the application of dot codes can be applied to other content areas as well as support transfer of skills to the home environment. Students are using the speaking-pen in both the home and classroom conditions to support repeated trials in their natural environment. A succinct description of implementing dot-codes into the classroom to support functional skills specific to individuals with ASD will be shared. This chapter will focus on following a multi-step recipe; however, the implementation can be applied to multiple areas of functional instruction.

Download Full-text

Delineating Functional Competencies: A Component Model

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps ◽

10.1177/154079698701200205 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 117-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Fredda Brown ◽

Ian M. Evans ◽

Keri A. Weed ◽

Valerie Owen

Keyword(s):

Students With Disabilities ◽

Skill Acquisition ◽

Current Literature ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Narrow Range ◽

Component Model ◽

Natural Environments ◽

Functional Skills ◽

Severe Handicaps

This article describes a model for representing functional competencies in students with disabilities. Although strategies exist to identify skills and activities that are functional for students with severe handicaps, these strategies provide relatively little information on how to separate the functional skills into meaningful component parts that represent the range of behaviors needed in the natural environment. Data are presented to illustrate the narrow range of behaviors included in task analyses in current literature on skill acquisition. The Component Model of Functional Life Routines provides a systematic alternate approach to delineating the behaviors required in natural environments.

Download Full-text

Observation in Training Parents of Handicapped Children: A Review

Behavioural Psychotherapy ◽

10.1017/s0141347300014531 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 99-114

Author(s):

J. R. A. Wood

Keyword(s):

Parent Training ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Handicapped Children ◽

Direct Observations ◽

Transfer Of Skills ◽

Reporting Practice ◽

Professional Workers ◽

Multiple Outcome ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Natural Settings

Research and service-oriented studies are reviewed to indicate issues and promising strategies for evaluation of field-based parent-training. The main areas which professionals and researchers must address themselves to are indicated. A variety of multiple-outcome measures are used. Skill development and transfer of skills to the natural environment remains a poorly evaluated area. Professional workers need to attempt more control in methodology, reporting practice and using research analyses. Researchers will have to direct study to assessing realiability and validity and developing practical instruments for widespread use. The implications of previous work are discussed. The emphasis of the paper is that direct observations of parents working in their natural settings should be the preferred means of evaluation.

Download Full-text

Random isn't real: How the patchy distribution of ecological rewards may generate “incentive hope”

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18002005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Laurel Symes ◽

Thalia Wheatley

Keyword(s):

Natural Environment ◽

Random Distribution ◽

Spatiotemporal Distribution ◽

Patchy Distribution ◽

Distribution Of Resources

AbstractAnselme & Güntürkün generate exciting new insights by integrating two disparate fields to explain why uncertain rewards produce strong motivational effects. Their conclusions are developed in a framework that assumes a random distribution of resources, uncommon in the natural environment. We argue that, by considering a realistically clumped spatiotemporal distribution of resources, their conclusions will be stronger and more complete.

Download Full-text

Extreme self-sacrifice beyond fusion: Moral expansiveness and the special case of allyship

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18001620 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Daniel Crimston ◽

Matthew J. Hornsey

Keyword(s):

General Theory ◽

Biological Markers ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Relevant Dimension ◽

Special Case

AbstractAs a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice, Whitehouse's article misses one relevant dimension: people's willingness to fight and die in support of entities not bound by biological markers or ancestral kinship (allyship). We discuss research on moral expansiveness, which highlights individuals’ capacity to self-sacrifice for targets that lie outside traditional in-group markers, including racial out-groups, animals, and the natural environment.

Download Full-text

Comparisons of Auditory Brainstem Responses Between a Laboratory and Simulated Home Environment

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00383 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (11) ◽

pp. 3877-3892

Author(s):

Ashley Parker ◽

Candace Slack ◽

Erika Skoe

Keyword(s):

Home Environment ◽

Signal To Noise Ratio ◽

Auditory Brainstem ◽

Auditory Brainstem Responses ◽

Single Family ◽

Adult Participants ◽

Simulated Home Environment ◽

Brainstem Response ◽

Research Populations ◽

Response Consistency

Purpose Miniaturization of digital technologies has created new opportunities for remote health care and neuroscientific fieldwork. The current study assesses comparisons between in-home auditory brainstem response (ABR) recordings and recordings obtained in a traditional lab setting. Method Click-evoked and speech-evoked ABRs were recorded in 12 normal-hearing, young adult participants over three test sessions in (a) a shielded sound booth within a research lab, (b) a simulated home environment, and (c) the research lab once more. The same single-family house was used for all home testing. Results Analyses of ABR latencies, a common clinical metric, showed high repeatability between the home and lab environments across both the click-evoked and speech-evoked ABRs. Like ABR latencies, response consistency and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were robust both in the lab and in the home and did not show significant differences between locations, although variability between the home and lab was higher than latencies, with two participants influencing this lower repeatability between locations. Response consistency and SNR also patterned together, with a trend for higher SNRs to pair with more consistent responses in both the home and lab environments. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining high-quality ABR recordings within a simulated home environment that closely approximate those recorded in a more traditional recording environment. This line of work may open doors to greater accessibility to underserved clinical and research populations.

Download Full-text