Brief report: Building choice opportunities within a robot-assisted occupational program: A case study
✍ Scribed by Giulio E. Lancioni; Domenico Bellini; Doretta Oliva
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 438 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
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✦ Synopsis
The new version of the program (with choice opportunities) was then employed with a low-functioning, multiply handicapped man who had previously been trained in the old version of the same program (the one with no choice opportunities). The results have shown that the man responded "purposefully" to choice situations and maintained highly accurate activity engagement. The importance of providing choice opportunities to people with severe and multiple handicaps and the cost and benefits of the program used in this study are discussed.
Promoting independent activity engagement and providing choice opportunities are prominent issues for professionals involved in the care of people who are severely/profoundly mentally retarded or mentally retarded and blind/deaf-blind (i.e., multiply handicapped) (