Content area
Life skills represent important skills needed for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Technology, including immersive and non-immersive virtual reality, presents options to support the acquisition and maintenance of life skills for students with IDD. In this study, researchers examined a non-immersive virtual simulation module for delivering life skills instruction to high school students with IDD, with particular attention on food preparation-making grilled cheese on a stove. In the single subject multiple probe study with three participants, the researchers found two main results: (a) a functional relation between the intervention-virtual simulations for delivering life skills instruction-and the dependent variable of independent accuracy in making a grilled cheese sandwich on a stove, and (b) students maintained high levels of accuracy in their targeted skill (i.e., making a grilled cheese on a stove) after instruction ended.
Details
Computer Simulation;
Developmental Disabilities;
Students with Disabilities;
High School Students;
Daily Living Skills;
Environment;
Prompting;
Researchers;
Individualized Instruction;
Interpersonal Competence;
Interpersonal Relationship;
Individualized Education Programs;
Language Maintenance;
Student Participation;
Evidence Based Practice;
Food;
Autism Spectrum Disorders;
Influence of Technology;
Conventional Instruction;
Independent Living;
Individualized Programs;
Special Education Teachers;
Skill Development;
Accuracy
Augmented reality;
Food;
Individualized education programs;
Intervention;
Secondary schools;
Task analysis;
Evidence-based practice;
Microwaves;
Developmental disabilities;
Secondary school students;
Virtual reality;
Simulation;
Young adults;
Food preparation;
Life skills;
Students;
Learning;
Accuracy;
Cooking;
Researchers;
Shopping;
Skills;
Cheese;
Special education;
Intellectual disabilities;
Life;
Researcher subject relations
1 Michigan State University
2 Saginaw Valley State University
3 McNeese State University