The purpose of this study was to establish a relationship between a treatment program that draws on the components of a movement activities intervention curriculum model and static and dynamic behaviors; the occurrences of assisted movement; and locomotion through space in four young visually impaired children during an unstructured play period in a large familiar natural environment. Eight experimental questions were generated to probe the functional relationship between Treatment 1, listening activity sessions and verbal prompting to encourage movement in the large familiar environment and Treatment 2, the movement activity sessions with verbal prompts that faded over time. / A repeated measures, multiple baseline design across subjects with reversals was employed to examine the relationship between the two treatments and the four dependent variables. All data was analyzed by visual inspection of the graphic representations of the dependent variables and analysis of the median of each target behavior across the four subjects. / In visually examining the graphic representations of the data, no clear and definite trend emerged after the initiation of Treatment 1 or Treatment 2, thus no functional relationship was established between any of the four dependent variables and either of the two treatment interventions. Consequently "no functional relationship exists" was the answer to each of the eight experimental questions. / Although no clear and definite change was evident in the subjects' behavior relative to the dependent variables, trends did begin to emerge following the introduction of the movement activities sessions. Treatment 2 did have some effect in reducing some static behaviors (swinging, sliding, and climbing), increasing the occurrence of some dynamic behaviors (running, hopping, galloping, and skipping), reducing the occurrence of assisted movements, and increasing slightly locomotion through space. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-03, Section: A, page: 0866. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75790 |
| Contributors | PALAZESI, MARGOT ANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 236 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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