Department of Special Education, National Dong Hwa University, No. 123, Hua-Hsi Rd, Hualien 970, Taiwan, ROC.
Res Dev Disabil. 2009 Nov-Dec;30(6):1212-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2009.04.003. Epub 2009 May 17.
This study evaluated whether two children with developmental disabilities would be able to improve their pointing performance through an Automatic Pointing Assistive Program (APAP) and a newly developed mouse driver (i.e. a new mouse driver replaces standard mouse driver, and is able to intercept mouse click action). Initially, both participants had their baseline sessions. Then intervention started with the first participant. When her performance was consolidated, new baseline and intervention occurred with the second participant. Finally, both participants were exposed to maintenance phase, in which their pointing performance improved significantly. Data indicated that both participants: (a) improved their pointing efficiency with the use of APAP and (b) remained highly successful through maintenance phase. Implications of the findings are discussed.
本研究评估了两名发展障碍儿童是否能够通过自动指向辅助程序（APAP）和新开发的鼠标驱动程序（即新的鼠标驱动程序替代标准鼠标驱动程序，并能够拦截鼠标点击操作）来提高他们的指向性能。最初，两名参与者都进行了基础阶段的测试。然后，第一个参与者开始接受干预。当她的表现得到巩固后，第二个参与者开始进行新的基础阶段和干预阶段。最后，两名参与者都进入了维持阶段，他们的指向性能显著提高。数据表明，两名参与者：（a）通过使用 APAP 提高了他们的指向效率；（b）在维持阶段仍然非常成功。讨论了研究结果的意义。
