Teaching individuals with profound multiple disabilities to access preferred stimuli with multiple microswitches
- Författare
- Tam GM, Phillips KJ, Mudford OC.
- Titel
- Teaching individuals with profound multiple disabilities to access preferred stimuli with multiple microswitches
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Tidskrift
- Research in Developmental Disabilities
- Volym
- 32
- Häfte
- 6
- Sidor
- 2352-2361
- Sammanfattning
We replicated and extended previous research on microswitch facilitated choice making by individuals with profound multiple disabilities. Following an assessment of stimulus preferences, we taught 6 adults with profound multiple disabilities to emit 2 different responses to activate highly preferred stimuli. All participants learnt to activate both microswitches. Five participants showed a higher overall level of responding when both switches activating preferred stimuli were available concurrently. After completion of microswitch training, a choice assessment was conducted in which participants had access to 2 microswitches concurrently, with 1 connected to the most highly preferred stimulus and the other to a least preferred stimulus. Choice making behavior was shown in 3 participants and provided support for the preference assessment results. The results of the 3 remaining participants showed that both the most highly preferred and the least preferred stimuli may serve as reinforcers for microswitch activation responses. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.