Each year, the TASH Conference strengthens the disability field by connecting attendees to innovative information and resources, facilitating connections between stakeholders within the disability movement, and helping attendees reignite their passion for an inclusive world. This year’s conference theme, “Gateway to Equity,” explores inclusive communities, schools, and workplaces that support people with disabilities, including those with complex support needs, in living a fair, just, and balanced life. Return to TASH website.
This study employs a quantitative synthesis, a meta-analysis, of single-subject design research in order to investigate the efficacy of mobile device based interventions for individuals with moderate-to-severe intellectual and developmental disability. Effect sizes of mobile device based interventions were measured and compared by computing the percentage of nonoverlapping data point (PND) and cohen???s d effect sizes from single-subject research that have met inclusion criteria. A total of 15 studies and 110 observed cases were extracted from data/manual searches. People with extensive support needs and their service providers/educators will learn how to identify more effective and efficient ways of mobile device use based on types of target skills, functions of device use, contents of interventions, and educational environment and communication/functioning levels of people with moderate-to-severe intellectual and developmental disability. After this session, participants will be able to (a) distinguish instructional technology from assistive technology, (b) summarize current trends in the use of mobile devices in inclusive educational settings for students with moderate-to-severe intellectual and developmental disability, and (c) synthesize effectiveness of mobile device based interventions for individuals with moderate-to-severe intellectual and developmental disability.
