[PDF] Tying the Delivery of Activity Step Instructions to Step Performance: Evaluating a Basic Technology System with People with Special Needs | Semantic Scholar (2024)

The data suggest that the aforementioned technology system may enable people with intellectual disability and sensory impairment to start and carry out functional activities independent of staff.

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, and discusses the role of technology-aided strategies over time, the relative potential of various technology-aided strategies, and the accessibility and applicability of the strategies.

The most common tasks performed using voice assistants were interface control, reminders, and environmental control, with a focus on enabling independence, and Amazon Alexa was the most discussed brand in both sources.

A technology package may enable persons with multiple disabilities to perform complex activities at the appropriate times.

The results showed that all participants had a fairly rapid performance improvement with the introduction of the program, which extends previous evidence on the use of visual instructions and computer-aided programs for supporting their presentation and has clear practical implications for daily contexts.

It is highlighted that technology systems designed to present single-step instructions can be effective in teaching or supporting the independent performance of multistep activities by people with intellectual disability with or without other disabilities.

The smartphone-aided program can be a useful tool for people like the participants of this study, which failed to access leisure events and perform scheduled activities independently when the program was used.

This study involved two experiments and results indicated that the condition in which the instructions were clustered was more effective for maintaining correct task performance.

This study used a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the use of system of least prompts to teach students to self-instruct and evaluate theUse of a mobile device for a video activity schedule of a functional daily living skill.

A smartphone intervention, such as that used in this study, may help people with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability and sensory impairments to successfully engage in daily activities.

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