Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Safety Training Used to Teach Pedestrian Skills to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at an increased risk of injury, making safety skills training essential. Whether such training is conducted in the natural environment or in contrived settings is an important consideration for generalization and safety purposes. Immersive virtual rea...

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Autores principales: Dixon, Dennis R., Miyake, Christopher J., Nohelty, Karen, Novack, Marlena N., Granpeesheh, Doreen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7471232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00401-1
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Miyake, Christopher J.
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Granpeesheh, Doreen
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description Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at an increased risk of injury, making safety skills training essential. Whether such training is conducted in the natural environment or in contrived settings is an important consideration for generalization and safety purposes. Immersive virtual reality (VR) environments may offer the advantages of both contrived and natural environment training settings, providing structure to create repeated learning opportunities in a safe and realistic analogue of the natural environment. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of an immersive VR safety skills training environment in teaching 3 children with ASD to identify whether it is safe to cross the street. After modifications to the VR training environment, all 3 participants reached mastery criteria in both VR and natural environment settings. Findings suggest that immersive VR is a promising medium for the delivery of safety skills training to individuals with ASD.
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spelling pubmed-74712322020-09-18 Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Safety Training Used to Teach Pedestrian Skills to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Dixon, Dennis R. Miyake, Christopher J. Nohelty, Karen Novack, Marlena N. Granpeesheh, Doreen Behav Anal Pract Research Article Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at an increased risk of injury, making safety skills training essential. Whether such training is conducted in the natural environment or in contrived settings is an important consideration for generalization and safety purposes. Immersive virtual reality (VR) environments may offer the advantages of both contrived and natural environment training settings, providing structure to create repeated learning opportunities in a safe and realistic analogue of the natural environment. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of an immersive VR safety skills training environment in teaching 3 children with ASD to identify whether it is safe to cross the street. After modifications to the VR training environment, all 3 participants reached mastery criteria in both VR and natural environment settings. Findings suggest that immersive VR is a promising medium for the delivery of safety skills training to individuals with ASD. Springer International Publishing 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7471232/ /pubmed/32953391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00401-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00401-1
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