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This project develops a cloud-based system for managing and delivering “on demand” activity prompts to individuals with intellectual disabilities along with a comprehensive, automated reporting system to enable reliable remote notifications to facilitate monitoring of task compliance. Pictures, audio, and video prompts can be delivered anywhere via the cloud to a Visual Impact cognitively acce ...

Purpose: In education research, the standardized mean difference (symbolized by d) is the predominant effect size index. It is calculated as the difference between the treatment-group and control-group means, divided by the pooled standard deviation. Using d allows the impacts of education interventions to be compared even when they have been evaluated using different measures or study designs. Ca ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL DEMONSTRATE THE APPLICATION OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF SELF-PACED VIDEO AND AUDIO TRAINING FOR TEACHING VOCATIONAL SKILLS TO MODERATE AND LOWER FUNCTIONING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION. LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES ARE DEVELOP PICTURECOACH, A SELF-PACED VIDEO TRAINING DEVICE, AND POCKETCOACH, A COMPANION DEVICE TO PROVIDE SELF-PACED AUDIO TRAINING. SPECIFIC AIMS FOR PHASE ...

THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL COVERS A PROJECT TO CONDUCT RESEARCH WRITE NARRATIVE, INSTRUCTIONAL AND SHOOTING SCRIPTS, AND IDENTIFY FILM SITES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE VIDEO PREVOCATIONAL SELECTION INSTRUMENT. SELECTION PATHS AND TOUCH SCREEN INPUT WILL ENABLE BOTH INDEPENDENT USE BY INDIVIDUALS WIHT MENTAL RETARDATION (CLASSIFIED "TRAINABLE")AND USE OF THE INSTRUMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH A COUN ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESSS OF SELF-PACED INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS TO INSTRUCT LIMITED-ENGLISH PROFICIENT (LEP) STUDENTS. INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THIS CONTEXT IS A MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION INCORPORATING COMPUTER GRAPHICS, STILL IMAGES, TEXT, AND AUDIO. THE CONTENT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED IS GEOGRAPHY FROM THE SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICUL ...

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This project develops and tests a multimedia software application to provide an independently usable format for improving knowledge of voting and election processes for persons with intellectual disabilities. During Phase I, a prototype is developed and evaluated to determine the feasibility of the approach for providing an independent, self-paced, self-directed format allowing students with intel ...

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