The Effectiveness of Video Modelling in Teaching Farming Skills to Individuals with Intellectual Disability

This study aims at examining the effectiveness of video modeling (VM) in teaching skills to grow seedlings, which is a farming skill, to individuals with mild intellectual disability (ID), and the retention and generalization of the skills learned. At the same time, the degree of acquisition of non-targeted information presented through video modeling by the participants during the teaching period; the opinions of special education teachers and the families of participants on the teaching process presented through VM and the targeted skills were evaluated. Multiple probe design with probe conditions across subjects, which is a type of single-subject research design, was used in the research. One male and two female individuals, aged 18-22, with ID diagnosis were included in the study. Research findings indicated that VM was effective in teaching skills to grow seedlings to individuals with ID, that there was an increase in the acquisition of non-targeted information presented through video modeling in participants and that social validity was established in the research.