Technology for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review

Johnson, Khalilah R.; Blaskowitz, Meghan; Mahoney, Wanda J.

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“…For example, the use of the Clicker 5 package and the use of the Macrodroid application require that staff (a) arrange the choice options to be targeted within the intervention, (b) program the computer, smartphone, or tablet to present those options in a way that is suitable to the participants, and (c) identify/select the type of responses through which the participants can choose among those options and eventually access the ones that they prefer. While this arrangement and programming may not be too complicated and caregivers who have basic knowledge of and familiarity with technology and related issues, they may result somewhat problematic for staff and caregivers who have no experience in this area [3,4,9,10,25,45,61].…”

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“…The use of technology is increasingly part of everyday life for neurotypical people as well as for people with intellectual and other disabilities [1][2][3][4][5]. The technology employed with people with disabilities is usually adapted to their condition and aimed at helping them achieve goals (i.e., independent activity or leisure engagement) beyond their reach if not adequately supported [6][7][8][9][10]. In essence, the role of technology is being seen as instrumental in creating autonomy and independence over several daily situations in which the absence of technology would imply people's dependence on staff or caregivers and/or extended passivity [2,4,6,7].…”

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“…The goals pursued and the technology solutions employed change in relation to the characteristics (levels of disability) of the people involved and the priorities of their daily contexts. For example, one of the main goals pursued for people with mild or moderate intellectual disability is independent engagement in multistep occupational, domestic, or vocational activities [9,[11][12][13][14][15][16]. The achievement of this goal is considered highly relevant from the people's perspective and from the standpoint of their rehabilitation context.…”

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An Overview of Recent Technology-Aided Intervention Strategies to Help People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Meet Relevant Rehabilitation Goals

Lancioni,

Singh,

O'Reilly

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OBM Neurobiol

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The paper presents an overview of recent studies assessing technology-aided strategies aimed at helping people with intellectual and multiple disabilities reach relevant rehabilitation goals. The 16 studies included in the paper addressed four specific rehabilitation goals, that is, (a) performance of functional activities, (b) access to leisure and communication and performance of functional activities, (c) increase of adaptive responses and decrease of problem behavior or inadequate posture, and (d) increase of ambulation responses. For each study, the paper reports the participants involved, the technology and the assessment process used, and the results obtained. Following the presentation of the studies, the paper focuses on three practically relevant issues: the role of technology-aided strategies over time, the relative potential of various technology-aided strategies, and the accessibility and applicability of the strategies.

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An Overview of Recent Technology-Aided Intervention Strategies to Help People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Meet Relevant Rehabilitation Goals

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Singh,

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“…Given the relevance of enabling people to manage the performance of multistep tasks, a large variety of studies have been conducted with the aim of reaching this goal with the support of technological solutions [ 1 , 4 , 20 ]. These technological solutions, designed to provide instructions for performing task steps correctly and in the right sequence, present several differences [ 10 , 21 ]. The most obvious differences concern (1) the characteristics of the instructions provided (eg, static pictorial images vs video clips illustrating the steps with or without an accompanying verbal phrase describing the steps) and (2) the way those instructions are made available [ 1 , 4 ].…”

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Enabling People With Intellectual and Sensory Disabilities to Trigger a Tablet’s Delivery of Task Instructions by Walking to the Tablet: Proof-of-Concept Study

Lancioni,

Singh,

O’Reilly

et al. 2024

JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol

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Background People with intellectual and sensory or sensory-motor disabilities tend to have problems performing multistep tasks. To alleviate their problems, technological solutions have been developed that provide task-step instructions. Instructions are generally delivered at people’s request (eg, as they touch an area of a computer or tablet screen) or automatically, at preset intervals. Objective This study carried out a preliminary assessment of a new tablet-based technology system that presented task-step instructions when participants with intellectual and sensory disabilities walked close to the tablet (ie, did not require participants to perform fine motor responses on the tablet screen). Methods The system entailed a tablet and a wireless camera and was programmed to present instructions when participants approached the tablet, that is, when the camera positioned in front of the tablet detected them. Two instructions were available for each task step. One instruction concerned the object(s) that the participants were to collect, and the other instruction concerned the “where” and “how” the object(s) collected would need to be used. For 3 of the six participants, the two instructions were presented in succession, with the second instruction presented once the required object(s) had been collected. For the other 3 participants, the two instructions were presented simultaneously. Instructions consisted of pictorial representations combined with brief verbal phrases. The impact of the system was assessed for each of the 2 groups of participants using a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design across individuals. Results All participants were successful in using the system. Their mean frequency of correct task steps was close to or above 11.5 for tasks including 12 steps. Their level of correct performance tended to be much lower during the baseline phase when they were to receive the task-step instructions from a regular tablet through scrolling responses. Conclusions The findings, which need to be interpreted with caution given the preliminary nature of the study, suggest that the new tablet-based technology system might be useful for helping people with intellectual and sensory disabilities perform multistep tasks.

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“…Given the relevance of enabling people to manage the performance of multistep tasks, a large variety of studies have been conducted with the aim of reaching such a goal with the support of technology solutions [1,4,20]. The technology solutions, which have been designed to provide people with instructions to perform the task steps correctly and in the right sequence, present several differences [10,21]. The most obvious differences concern (1) the characteristics of the instructions provided (e.g., static pictorial images versus video clips illustrating the steps to be performed with or without an accompanying verbal phrase describing the steps), and…”

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Enabling People With Intellectual and Sensory Disabilities to Trigger a Tablet’s Delivery of Task Instructions by Walking to the Tablet: Proof-of-Concept Study (Preprint)

Lancioni,

Singh,

O’Reilly

et al. 2024

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BACKGROUND People with intellectual and other disabilities tend to have problems performing multistep tasks. To alleviate their problems, technology solutions have been developed that provide task-step instructions. Instructions are generally delivered on people’s request (e.g., as they touch an area of a computer or tablet screen) or automatically, at preset intervals. OBJECTIVE The present study carried out a preliminary assessment of a new tablet-based technology system that presented the task instructions when people walked close to the tablet rather than when they performed fine motor responses (e.g., scrolling) on the tablet screen. METHODS The system consisted of a tablet and a wireless camera and was programmed to present the first or next instruction of a task sequence as soon as the participants approached the tablet, that is, as the participants were spotted by the camera that was positioned before the tablet. Six participants were involved in the study. For three of them, two instructions were used for each task step. For the other three participants, a single instruction was used for each task step. Instructions consisted of pictorial representations combined with brief verbal description of the corresponding action (task step). The impact of the system was assessed for each of the two groups of participants using a non-concurrent multiple baseline design across individuals. RESULTS All participants were successful in using the system. Their mean frequency of correct task steps were close to or above 11.5 for tasks including 12 steps. Their level of correct performance tended to be much lower during the baseline phase when they were to get the task instructions from a regular tablet through scrolling responses. CONCLUSIONS The findings, which need to be interpreted with caution given the preliminary nature of the study, suggest that the new tablet-based technology system might be a useful tool for supporting the performance of multistep tasks.

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Technology for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

An Overview of Recent Technology-Aided Intervention Strategies to Help People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Meet Relevant Rehabilitation Goals

An Overview of Recent Technology-Aided Intervention Strategies to Help People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Meet Relevant Rehabilitation Goals

Enabling People With Intellectual and Sensory Disabilities to Trigger a Tablet’s Delivery of Task Instructions by Walking to the Tablet: Proof-of-Concept Study

Enabling People With Intellectual and Sensory Disabilities to Trigger a Tablet’s Delivery of Task Instructions by Walking to the Tablet: Proof-of-Concept Study (Preprint)

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