Journal
JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 426-436Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/01626434211019399
Keywords
social skills; content; curriculum area; universal design for learning; educational perspectives; speech or language disability; exceptionality; pedagogical agents; instructional; policy perspectives; small N; single subject design; methodologies
Categories
Funding
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) [950-231395]
- Canada Research Chairs [501959]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This study found that using eye tracking devices in special education classrooms can significantly improve students' abilities. Integrated systems are more effective, leading to longer training sessions and higher response rates.
This study examines interactions between students with atypical motor and speech abilities, their teachers, and eye tracking devices under varying conditions typical of educational settings (e.g., interactional style, teacher familiarity). Twelve children (aged 4-12 years) participated in teacher-guided sessions with eye tracking software that are designed to develop augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) skills. Assessments of expressive communication skills before and after the testing period demonstrated significant improvements. 164 sessions conducted over a 3-month period were analyzed for positive engagement (e.g., gaze direction, session time) and system effectiveness (e.g., lag time, gaze registration) between integrated and non-integrated systems. Findings showed that integrated systems were associated with significantly longer sessions, more time spent looking at the screen, greater proportion of gaze targets registered by the system, and higher response rate to prompts from teachers. We discuss the implications for the facilitated use of eye tracking devices in special education classrooms.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available