Week 3 Video Modeling

Using video modeling to display proper behaviors for students with disabilities is a way to teach them proper behaviors in a controlled process. In both the articles read for this week they discussed different techniques of video modeling, point of view modeling and socially expressive modeling, which have been used with children who are autistic. With point of view modeling, the modeling was shown to students from their point of view and the way that they would see a situation. This modeling did not seem to be very effective given the study that we read. The students did not respond to the prompts that they were given during simulations and their actions seemed to be motivated by the food they were given rather than what they saw in the video. To me it didn’t seem as if the point of view model was the most effective way to get results from the students. Charlop, & Dennis et al (2010) study on socially expressive modeling seemed to work better with the students than the point of view. The students had better results in performing the modeled behavior when they could see exactly what was expected of them. I also think that it was key that they observed the students interactions with peers, as this will be their main form of interaction in school.

However, neither of these articles have completely convinced me that video modeling is the best way to get students to perform a desired task. I definitely would like to see more studies like these to further explore if video modeling is effective. I would especially be interested in a study on point of view modeling that did not involve the incentive of food, for the students, as this seemed to have tainted the students behaviors.