Technological aids to support choice strategies by three girls with Rett syndrome

Stasolla, Fabrizio; Perilli, Viviana; Leone, Antonia Di; Damiani, Rita; Albano, Vincenza; Stella, Anna; Damato, Concetta

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2014.09.017

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“…The damaging consequences of this situation, the general consensus on the need to tackle such a situation, and the increasing emphasis on the role of assistive technology in education, rehabilitation and care contexts have led to the development of a variety of technology-aided intervention programs to reduce the impact of those problems (2, 11, 19–22). To support people's leisure and communication activities, for example, two smartphone-based programs were recently reported (15, 23).…”

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An Upgraded Smartphone-Based Program for Leisure and Communication of People With Intellectual and Other Disabilities

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Singh

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Background: People with intellectual disability and sensory or sensory-motor impairments may display serious problems in managing functional daily activities as well as leisure activities and communication with distant partners.Aim: The study assessed an upgraded smartphone-based program to foster independent leisure and communication activity of eight participants with mild to moderate intellectual disability, sensory or sensory-motor impairments, and limited speech skills.Method: The upgraded program was based on the use of (a) a Samsung Galaxy A3 smartphone with Android 6.0 Operating System, near-field communication, music and video player functions, and Macrodroid application, and (b) special radio frequency-code labels. Participants requested leisure and communication activities by placing mini objects or pictures representing those activities and containing frequency-code labels on the smartphone. The smartphone, via the Macrodroid application, read the labels (i.e., discriminated the participants' requests) and provided the participants with the activities requested.Results: During the baseline (i.e., in the absence of the program), the participants failed to request/access leisure and communication activities independently. During the post-intervention phase of the study (i.e., using the program), they succeeded in requesting/accessing those activities independently and spent about 70–90% of their session time busy with those activities.Conclusion: The upgraded smartphone-based program may be highly functional for people like the participants of this study.

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An Upgraded Smartphone-Based Program for Leisure and Communication of People With Intellectual and Other Disabilities

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et al. 2018

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“…The negative implications of this situation are obvious, and there is clear consensus on the need to help people with multiple disabilities deal with their problems and enhance their perspectives of independent leisure and communication engagement (Badia et al 2013b;Meder and Wegner 2015;Stasolla et al 2015). A strategy to help them in such a direction might be based on the use of technology-aided solutions as indicated by recent literature (Hatakeyama et al 2015;Lancioni et al 2017b;Meder and Wegner 2015;Sahasrabudhe et al 2016).…”

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A Modified Smartphone-Based Program to Support Leisure and Communication Activities in People with Multiple Disabilities

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This study evaluated a new smartphone-based program to support independent leisure and communication activities in five participants with mild to moderate intellectual disability, visual and/or motor impairments, and poor speech. The new program relied on the use of two Samsung Galaxy A3 smartphone devices with Android 5.1 operating system. The participants placed mini objects or pictures fitted with special frequency code labels on one of the two smartphones to make their activity requests. This smartphone was able to read the labels and verbalize the related requests. Such verbalizations (a) triggered the S-voice of the second smartphone and (b) opened the corresponding leisure activity files or telephone contacts for the participants. All participants learned to use the new program. Their mean cumulative percentages of session time spent engaging with independently accessed leisure and communication activities ranged from about 80 to about 90 with the program while being zero without the program. These results indicate that the new smartphone-based program may be an effective resource for people with multiple disabilities.

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“…First, indices of happiness as a measure of quality of life have been investigated in previous studies targeting other behaviors (Stasolla, Damiani, Perilli, et al, ; Stasolla, De Pace et al, ; Stasolla, Perilli et al, ). The basic assumption is that through an MBP, an individual with multiple disabilities is provided with the ability to independently access preferred stimuli, and it is reasonable to assume that this would lead to increases in indices of happiness, but this remains unknown.…”

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A microswitch‐based program for promoting initial ambulation responses: An evaluation with two girls with multiple disabilities

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We assessed the use of a microswitch-based program for promoting ambulation responses by two children with multiple disabilities. The goals of the study were to: (a) evaluate the importance of the contingency between the target behavior (forward step) and the programmed consequence (preferred stimuli), (b) measure effects of the intervention on indices of happiness, and (c) assess the social validation of the procedure using 20 physiotherapists as external raters. The intervention involved the automatic delivery of preferred stimuli contingent on forward steps. Results showed that both participants improved their performance (forward steps and indices of happiness) during contingent reinforcement phases compared to baseline and noncontingent reinforcement phases. Moreover, physiotherapists rated the intervention as socially valid.

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Technological aids to support choice strategies by three girls with Rett syndrome

Cited by 54 publications

References 39 publications

An Upgraded Smartphone-Based Program for Leisure and Communication of People With Intellectual and Other Disabilities

An Upgraded Smartphone-Based Program for Leisure and Communication of People With Intellectual and Other Disabilities

A Modified Smartphone-Based Program to Support Leisure and Communication Activities in People with Multiple Disabilities

A microswitch‐based program for promoting initial ambulation responses: An evaluation with two girls with multiple disabilities

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