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A Critical Appraisal And Participatory Action Research Project On Effectiveness Of Weighed Vests For Early Elementary Children With Asd, Luna Blossom, Arielle Langworthy, Sarah Steckel
A Critical Appraisal And Participatory Action Research Project On Effectiveness Of Weighed Vests For Early Elementary Children With Asd, Luna Blossom, Arielle Langworthy, Sarah Steckel
School of Occupational Therapy Master's Capstone Projects (2016-2021)
A Tacoma Public School clinician approached the University of Puget Sound with a research question regarding the effectiveness of weighted vests to increase on-task behaviors and decrease problem behaviors (such as self-injurious behaviors) of students ages 3-12 with ASD. A structured literature review produced eleven studies (six single subject experimental studies and five systematic reviews) published on or after 2005 and presented evidence ranging from no evidence of effectiveness, to inconclusive results, to some rare positive effect results with weighted vest usage related to increasing on-task and decreasing self-injurious behaviors within the target population. Of the six single subject experimental …