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Response Prompting to Teach Grocery Shopping Skills

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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of response prompting to teach grocery shopping skills to individuals with disabilities.

Settings and Materials

Settings

Classroom, community grocery store

Materials

Teacher-made grocery lists with 10 items, audio recorders

Content Taught

  • Using response prompting delivered through audio recorders to teach students to gather items from a grocery list

Teaching Procedures

  • Provide students a hard copy of a 10-item grocery list at the store.
  • Accompany student as he/she/they attempts to locate each item and record whether the student correctly located and retrieved each item using a printed list only. Indicate the number and type of prompts needed.
  • In the classroom, next introduce the audio recorders. Provide students with instruction on how to use audio recorders (e.g., turning on and off, play recordings, how to record, adjust volume, etc.)
  • Students record their grocery list on the audio recorders.
  • Accompany student as he or she attempts to locate each item and record whether the student correctly located and retrieved each item using the audio recorder. Indicate the number and type of prompts needed.

Evaluation

As students attempt to locate the grocery items in each condition (i.e., only the printed list versus with the audio recorder), indicate how many items students found, as well as whether prompting was required and what type.

Lesson Plan Based On:

Bouck, E. C., Satsangi, R., Bartlett, W., & Weng, P-L. (2012). Promoting independence through assistive technology: Evaluating audio recorders to support grocery shopping. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 47(4), 462–473.

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