Title of Study:
Using an iPad-based Video Modelling Package to Teach Numeracy Skills to a Child
with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Authors: E.L. Jowett, D.W. Moore, and A. Anderson
Who Participated? A 5-year-old boy with ASD
What Technology Used? iPad, with video clips for counting
the number of favorite characters on screen. The video clip would show, for
example, six birds next to the numeral, “6.” The video clips also showed a
child writing each number.
What Skills Taught? Identifying numbers, writing numbers,
and understanding the quantity represented by a number.
Results: According to the authors, the intervention was
successful in helping the student acquire and maintain the targeted skills. The
student was said to show an immediate increase in the target skills after
watching the video clips for each number.
Where Published: Developmental
Neurorehabilitation, 2012
Please read the study for a full description of the teaching
strategies used and to evaluate the results for yourself.
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