Instructing Written Words to a Child with Mild Intellectual Disabilities Using Fast Mapping
Open Access
Author:
Litke, Jamie Ilyse
Area of Honors:
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Degree:
Bachelor of Science
Document Type:
Thesis
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Krista M Wilkinson, Thesis Supervisor Dr. Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
fast mapping intellectual disabilities vocabulary expansion sight words
Abstract:
Fast Mapping is a set of natural learning procedures in which children rapidly learn vocabulary after they are presented with limited exposures. This occurs when children take an unknown object and link it to an unknown referent in the presence of known objects. Previous studies have indicated that adapted fast mapping programs have the ability to facilitate rapid word learning. In this study, we analyze the effectiveness of a fast mapping computer program and its ability to teach multiple new written words to a child with an intellectual disability. It particularly focuses on when refinement of a session is needed due to a learning breakdown. Once the refinement is implement will learning continue to be successful? The program displayed the unknown words as written words and the known words as photographs. After the unknown word was learned, the following sessions implemented those words in the teaching trials for the new unknown target. This allowed for maintenance throughout each session.
