Collaborative Consultation for Participation Among Students With IDD

Ono Academic College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities With Organic Condition

Treatments: Other: IS; Other: Co-PID

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02797639

Onoac

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: Developing and corroborating the Collaborative Consultation for Participation of Students with Intellectual Disability (Co-PID) program, for enhancing classroom participation among students with moderate Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD).

Method: study took place in two special education schools and included students with moderate IDD (n=60) and their teachers (n=11). The settings were randomly assigned to intervention or control group. In the intervention group, Co-PID program was employed; in the control group an In-Service (IS) was employed. Participation was evaluated at pre-test and post-test.

Full description

The study was conducted in three phases: (a) pre-test; (b) intervention; and (c) post-test

Pre-test. Using the 'Structured Observation of Students' Participation in Class', each student in both groups was observed four times during different lessons (with a 1-week interval between observations) to establish a baseline for level of participation. All pre-test observations were conducted between the 2nd and 3rd months of the school year, by an occupational therapist with 8 years of experience working with children with developmental delays. The observer was trained in using the 'Structured Observation of Students' Participation in Class' and was not blinded to the schools' assignment (Co-PID or IS). During this period the teachers, who were blinded to the school assignment, were asked to teach in a regular manner without changing the content or design of their lessons. Next, the teachers filled out the School Function Assessment questionnaire for each student. Finally, based on the 'Structured Observation of Students' Participation in Class' scores and teachers' familiarity with the students' function, the occupational therapist and each of the participating teachers jointly filled-out the 'Goal Attainment Scaling' form. Each student had three goals, one for each of the participation skills: Communicating, Choosing and Initiating. Post-test. This phase was conducted during the 9th and 10th months of the school year, and was identical to the pre-testing phase in terms of both process and measures used

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. A diagnosis of moderate IDD
2. Mobility independence
3. No secondary diagnosis of autism, nor sensory disabilities such as blindness or deafness
4. Students had been studying at the school for at least one year prior to data collection.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Co-PID

Experimental group

Description:

Eight collaborative consultation meetings between occupational therapist to each teacher in purpose of enhancing participation of students in class

Treatment:

Other: Co-PID

In-service

Active Comparator group

Description:

Three in- service meetings to all homeroom teachers together, in purpose of enhancing participation of students in class

Treatment:

Other: IS