The Impact of Assistive Technology in Enhancing Literacy of Homebound Students

Abstract

The effects of three interventions were examined in this study. The effects of the first and second intervention, Picture It! and Rf Coopers On-Screen Keyboard and Pix Writer, were compared with baseline performance on Student 1, Dean. The effect of the third intervention, Language Masters, was compared with baseline performance on Student 2, Emma. This field report presented the results that were obtained from the two interventions that were performed on Dean and the one intervention with Emma. Both interventions targeted literacy skills of the student subjects and were used in conjunction with assistive technology. Student performance was measured over a sixteen-day period. In this ABA single subject design baseline date were collected for the initial six days for both subjects, followed by treatment for six days, and finally followed by return to baseline condition for four days. In all three conditions, positive results were seen in using baseline compared to treatment results. Conversely, when comparing treatment to return to baseline conditions for each intervention a decrease was seen in the data .