THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WALKING WITH WALL TRAILING SKILL ON VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN THROUGH SIBLING TEACHING WITH SIMULTANEOUS PROMPTING PROCEDURE

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Mobility skills are crucial for visually impaired children. Children become confident, effective and one can act independently with education of mobility skills. In this study the effectiveness of simultaneous prompting procedure for the visually impaired children who are the siblings of typically developed children is examined. The study is conducted in Ankara with four visually impaired children and their typically developed siblings. The design of the study is a multiple probe-across-participants design. Researcher taught the instructive siblings how to teach simultaneous prompting procedure. For the teaching of simultaneous prompting procedure and mobility skills of the instructive siblings practice, generalization and maintenance sessions are conducted. For the mobility skills, the efficient performance of the learning siblings is gathered. According to the results, it is seen that the procedure of simultaneous prompting on the instructive siblings’ mobility skills is effective. Mobility skills were displayed by visual impairment children in different time and place.

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Walking with wall trailing skill , visually impairment children , mobility skills , sibling teaching , simultaneous prompting procedure

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi