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1Department of Educational Studies, Purdue University, 100 N University Street, W Lafayette, IN 47907-2098, USA. tabert@purdue.edu
Abstract:
Three secondary age students with moderate intellectual disabilities learned to use the system of least prompts, a self-operated picture prompting system, and a self-operated auditory prompting system to use a copy machine and a debit machine. Both the effectiveness and efficiency of these prompting systems were compared. Additionally, student preference of instructional method was examined. The results demonstrated that each prompting system was effective and efficient with varying students when skill acquisition and duration of task performance were measured. All students demonstrated increased independence in completing both tasks. This study found that the preferred prompting systems were more effective in terms of both skill acquisition and duration for completing tasks for students.
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