ABSTRACT

Most individuals with intellectual disability (ID) lack the motivation and willingness to do exercise on their own. The purpose of this study was to apply the response-stimulation strategy to encourage three overweight students with ID to engage in walking/running. This was a preliminary study to implement the strategy by using a dance pad combined with a LEGO® Train. The LEGO® Train was used as the stimulation to motivate the participants and a dance pad was used to detect the participants’ walking/running activity in order to trigger the LEGO® Train. This study adopted a multiple probe design across participants, including one baseline phase and two intervention phases. The experimental results show that the three participants performed a greater number of walking/running steps during the intervention phases, compared to the baseline phase. The findings demonstrate that a dance pad combined with the LEGO® Train was a feasible motivator to increase the participants’ willingness to perform walking/running on their own.

摘要

大多数智障 (ID) 个体缺乏自行锻炼的动力和意愿。本研究的目的是应用反应-刺激策略来鼓励三名患有智力障碍的超重学生参与步行/跑步。这是一项初步研究，通过使用舞蹈垫和乐高®火车来实施该策略。LEGO® Train 被用作激励参与者的刺激物，并使用舞蹈垫来检测参与者的步行/跑步活动，以触发 LEGO® Train。本研究对参与者采用了多探针设计，包括一个基线阶段和两个干预阶段。实验结果表明，与基线阶段相比，三名参与者在干预阶段执行了更多的步行/跑步步骤。