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Young Adults With Disabilities Acquire Vocational Skills With Video Modeling, Carly Schroeder-Mackay
Young Adults With Disabilities Acquire Vocational Skills With Video Modeling, Carly Schroeder-Mackay
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Students with disabilities often require substantial support to acquire the skills needed to secure work experience and paid employment. Special education transition programs have an obligation to utilize evidence-based practices to facilitate the acquisition of such skills. In the present project, three studies were conducted to examine the effects of video modeling on the acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of job-related tasks taught in a classroom setting to young adults with developmental disabilities. In Study 1, a multiple baseline across behaviors experimental design with four participants was used to assess the effects of video prompts on the percentage of correctly completed …