A location-based prompting system to transition autonomously through vocational tasks for individuals with cognitive impairments

• Published in: Research in developmental disabilities Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 2669 - 2673
• Main Authors: Chang, Yao-Jen, Wang, Tsen-Yung, Chen, Yan-Ru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Behavior Therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Injuries - rehabilitation; Cell Phone; Cognition Disorders - rehabilitation; Cognitive impairment; Cognitive impairments; Community Based Instruction (Disabilities); Community-based rehabilitation; Dementia - rehabilitation; Disabilities; Employment Programs; Employment, Supported - methods; Female; Humans; Intellectual Disability - rehabilitation; Intervention; Job Performance; Location-based services; Male; Medical sciences; Prompting; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Quality of Life; Reeducation. Readaptation. Sociotherapy; Rehabilitation, Vocational - instrumentation; Rehabilitation, Vocational - methods; Sequences; Supported Employment; Task Performance and Analysis; Task prompting; Transitional Programs; Treatments; Vocational Rehabilitation; Young Adult; Cognitive impairments; Task prompting; Community-based rehabilitation; Location-based services; Human; Cognitive disorder; Developmental disorder; Experimental study; Socioprofessional rehabilitation; Treatment; Reeducation; Young adult; Computer aid
• ISSN: 0891-4222; 1873-3379; 1873-3379
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.06.006

► For individuals to manage vocational tasks across multiple workstations in a workplace independently, a location-based handheld system was employed with success. ► Single subject research design was used with two adults who were diagnosed with cognitive disability. ► Data showed that the participants improve vocational performance during the intervention phases. This study assessed the possibility of training two individuals with cognitive impairments using location-based task prompting system in a supported employment program. This study was carried out according to an ABAB sequence in which A represented the baseline and B represented intervention phases. Data showed that the two participants significantly increased their target response, thus improving vocational job performance during the intervention phases. Practical and developmental implications of the findings are discussed.