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The Effects of Instruction with Individualized Assistive Technology on Acquiring Photography Skills of Adults with Severe Cerebral Palsy

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2007, 8(3), pp.69-92
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

강고운 1 Eun-Hye Park 2 Kim Jeongyoun 3

1서울정민학교
2이화여자대학교
3조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of systematic instruction with individualized assistive technology on photography skills of adults with severe cerebral palsy. Based on the assistive technology assessment for participants, the mounting system for photo capture and an alternative computer access device for photo editing using photoshop program were selected and fitted for each participants. The instructional strategies involved the use of picture workbook, least prompt procedure, and time delay.In this study, multiple probe baseline design across subjects was used. The intervention was composed of 8 to 11 sessions. To examine the maintenance effect, 3 follow-up sessions were conducted 3 weeks after the intervention was finished. The results of this study revealed that 1) all 3 participants showed successful acquisition of photo-taking and photo editing skills, and 2) the acquired photography skills of all three participants were maintained until three weeks after the intervention.These results indicate that systematic instruction using individualized assistive technology, picture workbook, least prompts system, and time delay seems and effective package of teaching strategies for adults with severe cerebral palsy in acquiring photography skills. Educational implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.

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