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Research Report: A Microswitch-based Program to Enable Students with Multiple Disabilities to Choose Among Environmental Stimuli


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Students with multiple disabilities, such as severe to profound mental retardation combined with motor and visual impairment, are usually unable to engage in constructive activity or play a positive role in their daily context (Holburn, Nguyen, & Vietze, 2004; Lancioni, O'Reilly, et al., 2004; Reid, Phillips, & Green, 1991). Microswitches are technical tools that may help them improve their status by allowing them to control environmental events with small and simple responses suitable to their condition. For example, a contact or pressure microswitch could enable a student with multiple disabilities to turn on a music source through a small wrist-movement response (Lancioni et al., 2005; Saunders et al., 2001). The source could stay on for a few seconds after each response.


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