Development of a Video Presentation as an Instructional Tool In Teaching Selected Self – Help Skills

Abstract

The choice of a video material has an advantage over a live model in terms of modelling the skill by repeatedly showing it, thus the decision to develop of a video material. The participants involved in the development proper were eight children with autism enrolled in Kapalaran, Inc. their ages ranging from six to seventeen years old. Six of them are diagnosed with mild autism and two are diagnosed with high functioning autism.The typical eating behaviors of the participants as observed are the following: Uses fingers to pick food, Uses fork and spoon but alternately, Uses fork and spoon but simultaneously, Does not use fork and spoon at all, and Sometimes needs help in eating were observed before watching the video presentation.It also established that there are three eating skills of the CWA where they need more assistance: “Uses fork to push the food towards the spoon”, “Pokes food using the tines of the fork”, and “Uses fingers to twirl the handle of the fork”.The result of the video presentation suggests that CWA improved their eating skills from good to satisfactory.