Video-based instruction in enhancing functional living skills of adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and their transition to independent living: a review

Abstract

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) deal with impairments in functional living skills. Video-based instruction (VBI) has been used for teaching and enhancing functional living skills for adolescents and young adults with ASD. This literature review of 19 relevant reports investigates various different types of VBI used in the studies. It explores the utilization and efficacy of VBI in enhancing the functional living capabilities of adolescents and young adults with ASD. Social skills were taught in most of the included studies. Only two studies focused on workplace social skills, three on vocational skills, and one on academic skills. The findings demonstrate that video modeling (VM) alone or in conjunction with other methods or strategies, is the method most often used in enhancement of functional living skills in adolescents and young adults with ASD.

Keywords:

• ASD
• autism
• video
• VBI
• adolescents and/or young adults
• and skills

Conflict of interest

All authors declare that there is not conflict of interest. The authors have not received grants. There is no conflict of interest.

Ethical approval

All procedures in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Funding

This study is self-funded.