Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.22874/kaba.2021.8.2.47
Chan-sang Park, Kyong-Mee Chung
Previous studies comparing the effectiveness of the distributed and accumulated reinforcement on the intellectual and developmental disability concluded that accumulated reinforcement is more effective. However, the task difficulty, types of reinforcer, and participants’ characteristics of previous studies were limited. The present study compared the effectiveness of distributed and accumulated reinforcement on the difficult task using food reinforcer and examined whether theses effects depend on participants’ diagnostic characteristics. A total of 33 participants(19 intellectual disability and 14 autism spectrum disorder(ASD)) conducted the visuospatial working memory task under both reinforcement conditions. The dependent variables were accuracy rate, correct response per minute, response per minute. The results showed that the accuracy rate and correct response per minute were significantly higher in the accumulated reinforcement. In addition, the ASD group showed a significantly higher accuracy rate in accumulated reinforcement than distributed reinforcement, but the intellectual disability group showed no differences between conditions. These results suggest that children with intellectual disability and ASD show a better performance under the accumulated reinforcement, and the characteristics of ASD are relevant to the effects of accumulated reinforcement.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.22874/kaba.2021.8.2.105
Young-Mee Kang, Moonbong Yang
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of backward chaining and most-to-least prompting on the performance of daily living skills of children with developmental disabilities. Two second-grade students from the special middle school participated in this study. Daily living skills, organizing one's bag, shoes, and jacket when the students arrive at the school in the morning, was selected as the dependent variable. The backward chaining and the most-to-least prompting provided as interventions were selected as the independent variables. For observation and measurement, the change in the performance rate was examined after analyzing daily living skills in individual 6-10 steps for each child. In this case, the performance rate was calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of task analysis steps performed by the child by the total number of task analysis steps. Using a multiple probe baseline design across behavior, the data of baseline, intervention, and maintenance phase were collected and functional relation was verified. The result of visual analysis revealed that the daily living skills of children with developmental disabilities have improved effectively by the backward chaining and the most-to-least prompting, and these intervention effects were maintained even after a period of time. Discussions, limitations, and suggestions regarding the overall study were described.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.22874/kaba.2021.8.2.69
Su-Jin Jang, Hyun-Sook Kim
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of home-based positive behavior support on problem behavior and self-management skills in children who rely on smartphones. The subjects of the study conducted individualized positive behavioral support for two third-grade boys and one girl using probe design across subjects. It provided positive home-based action support after establishing functional behavior assessment, background/precedence strategy, alternative behavior teaching strategy, and follow-up outcome strategy within the evening and time of families, a natural environment where smartphone overdependent behavior is frequently occurring. As a result, individualized positive behavior support at home increased self-management skills acquired during the intervention and reduced problem behavior in target children. The limitation of the study was discussed and future direction has been suggested.
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