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Degree

Master of Arts, Ohio State University, ED Physical Activities and Educational Services, 2009.

Abstract

This study used duration of eye gaze toward a stimulus to measure preference. The study took place in two schools for students with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. All four participants were high school students who had a diagnosis of multiple disabilities. The observers used direct recording procedures to record choices made by the individuals and emissions of targeted behavior within a reversal design. The conditions included: Baseline, High-preferred, and Low-preferred. Results indicate that duration of eye gaze toward a stimulus is a promising method of measuring preference for individuals with multiple disabilities and that those preferred stimuli can function as reinforcers.

Subject Headings

Special education

Keywords

preference assessments; eye gaze; multiple disabilities

Committee / Advisors

Dr. Ralph Gardner, III (Advisor)
Dr. Helen Malone (Committee Member)
Kristall Graham (Committee Member)

Pages

113p.

Document number: osu1250703534
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250703534

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