Development of Mobile Skill Teaching Software for Parents of Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop a mobile skill teaching software, which will be used by parents to teach daily life skills to their children with intellectual disability. Design based research methodology was utilized for the study. With this purpose in mind, first of all a pilot software was developed based on the applied behavior analysis technique and in line with the related literature. Then as a sample group, 10 participants were determined. These participants used the software and tried to teach the daily living skills by using the software. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews and video recordings of skill teaching sessions. Based on the data analysis, new decisions were made about the software design and the software development process continued. The data collection and software development processes were performed in a circular process. In this study, the software development process was explained, and the software developed in this process was introduced. This research was supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [110K545] and Anadolu University Scientific Research Projects [1101E016]