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Sally B. Shepley; Amy D. Spriggs; Mark Samudre; Kai M. O'Neill – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Exercise is necessary for healthy living, yet individuals with intellectual disability (ID) remain strikingly inactive compared with nondisabled peers. To improve this outcome, individuals with ID can exercise independently by self-instructing. Self-instruction is considered a pivotal skill once it generalizes to untrained stimuli. This study used…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Disability, Exercise
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Sng, Cheong Ying; Carter, Mark; Stephenson, Jennifer – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Difficulties with social conversation can be a direct result of the social skills deficit in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The popularity of hand-held devices and the development of commercial apps has expanded the scope of teaching social skills via this modality. This study extends an earlier pilot study in which a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development
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Shepley, Sally B.; Spriggs, Amy D.; Samudre, Mark D.; Sartini, Emily C. – Journal of Special Education, 2019
This study evaluated the effects of progressive time delay (PTD) to teach four elementary students with intellectual disability on how to self-instruct using a video activity schedule. A single-case multiple probe across participants design with a multiple probe across environments design for each participant was used to assess the generalization…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Video Technology, Intellectual Disability