Teaching Adults With Severe Disabilities To Express Their Choice Of Settings For Leisure Activities

Abstract

Assessing the leisure preferences of adults with severe disabilities can be complicated by underdeveloped communication, choice making, and leisure experiences. Determining preferences can be especially difficult for activities and settings, which are abstractions, in contrast to objects or materials, which are concrete and visible. This study demonstrated a method to determine setting preferences and subsequently, to teach three adults with severe mental retardation to express their choice between settings for similar leisure activities. Observations of duration of participation revealed differences between settings for all three adults. The adults then learned to use objects associated with the settings to communicate their choice between a community and center-based option.

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