Enabling People With Intellectual and Sensory Disabilities to Trigger a Tablet's Delivery of Task Instructions by Walking to the Tablet: Proof-of-Concept Study.
Giulio E Lancioni, Nirbhay N Singh, Mark F O'Reilly and 5 others
PMID 38865701WHAT IT FOUND
6 adults with intellectual and sensory disabilities performed near or above 11.5 of 12 correct steps per session with a combined camera-triggered tablet system using pictures, verbal phrases, positive feedback, praise words and videos.
Key findings
01With the combined tablet, wireless camera, pictures, verbal phrases, positive feedback, praise words and videos, 6 participants performed near or above 11.5 correct steps per session out of 12 available steps.
02During baseline, mean correct steps per session varied between about 1.5 and 6 out of 12 steps, and mean session length was about 11.5 minutes.
03For every participant, all intervention data points were higher than their baseline median frequency value.
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What it does not show
Only a small number of participants were studied, so the findings cannot support general statements. The study did not report generalisation or maintenance data. The study did not report participant satisfaction or social validation by staff and caregivers. No IQ scores were available, although the psychological services classified functioning as moderate intellectual disability. The study used a single-case multiple baseline design rather than comparing groups of participants. The intervention included several components together, so the contribution of any single component cannot be separated.
Declared interests
The paper states that the authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that the camera or tablet alone produced the intervention performance. The intervention included a tablet, wireless camera, pictorial and verbal instructions, positive feedback, praise words and preferred videos, and the paper does not separate the contribution of each component.