ERIC Number: EJ1369459
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1034-912X
EISSN: EISSN-1465-346X
Encouraging Overweight Students with Intellectual Disability to Engage in Walking/Running by Using a Dance Pad Combined with a LEGO® Train
Shih, Ching-Hsiang; Lai, Man-Chi; Chang, Man-Ling; Chang, Chia-Jui
International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, v69 n6 p1919-1928 2022
Most individuals with intellectual disability (ID) lack the motivation and willingness to do exercise on their own. The purpose of this study was to apply the response-stimulation strategy to encourage three overweight students with ID to engage in walking/running. This was a preliminary study to implement the strategy by using a dance pad combined with a LEGO® Train. The LEGO® Train was used as the stimulation to motivate the participants and a dance pad was used to detect the participants' walking/running activity in order to trigger the LEGO® Train. This study adopted a multiple probe design across participants, including one baseline phase and two intervention phases. The experimental results show that the three participants performed a greater number of walking/running steps during the intervention phases, compared to the baseline phase. The findings demonstrate that a dance pad combined with the LEGO® Train was a feasible motivator to increase the participants' willingness to perform walking/running on their own.
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Obesity, Exercise, Student Motivation, Educational Technology, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Computer Simulation, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Stimulation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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