Students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities often require substantial support to acquire the skills needed to secure work experience and paid employment. Prior findings suggest that video prompting is likely to be an effective and feasible strategy for establishing such skills. To evaluate this possibility in a special education transition program, we examined the effectiveness of a video prompting procedure in teaching 8 young adults with developmental disabilities to perform job-related tasks (doing laundry, checking in to work, vacuuming, stripping bed). The intervention was effective with all participants. The skills maintained over 3 months, and the participants performed the tasks accurately in a new setting with different materials. Participants were reportedly satisfied with the intervention and deemed it easy to use.
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Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Background/objectives: This study investigates the impact of maternal glycemic levels during early and late pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment in China.
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Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.
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Institute of Neuroscience, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Ave., 603022 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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Institute of Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 8001, Australia.
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