Description
More than 45 years of research supports the efficacy of video self-modeling across an array of behaviors and disabilities, including:
- Dysfluent speech
- Daily living skills
- Classroom routines and transitions
- Appropriate replacement behaviors for aggression and tantrums
- Language pragmatics
- Anxiety
- Noncompliance
- Selective mutism
- Use of strategies for academics with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
RESEARCH SNAPSHOT
A meta-analysis conducted in 2007 concluded that both video peer and self-modeling met the Council for Exceptional Children’s requirements for research-based methods.
Bellini, S., & Akullian, J., (2007). A meta-analysis of video modeling and video self-modeling interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Exceptional Children, 73, 261-284
PROCESS
Picture Perfect: Video Self-Modeling for Behavior Change contains step-by-step directions for:
- Selecting goal behaviors
- Developing a progress monitoring system
- Planning the video
- Creating the video
- Data collection and interpretation
Picture Perfect: Video Self-Modeling for Behavior Change includes 12 specific application examples with reproducible data collection forms, a visual index for supported decision making and all the information necessary to design and implement this effective intervention.
