Implementation of Interventions, Article Review Example

The article entitled “An Intervention for Students and Employees with Developmental Disabilities” by Jessica L. Bucholz and Michael P. Brady (2008) is a very interesting article that could help many teachers and employers learn how to teach students with disabilities as well as help practitioners implement interventions. By using certain interventions such as Literary Based Behavioral Interventions (LBBI), practitioners are able to narrow their help and feedback based on the particular person they are trying to help as these interventions would be based on their specific needs. According to the article “Teaching Positive Work Behavior with Literacy-Based Behavioral Interventions,” (2008) “the term LBBI includes the array of intervention formats that present opportunities for instruction and rehearsal through print or pictures and incorporates instruction with full or partial sentences, written reminders, stories, photographs, drawings, comic-strip illustrations, or other media” (50). These are perfect tools to be able to use in order to learn how to implement interventions to help others with disabilities. Bucholz and Brady (2008) state, in order to begin this type of intervention, “the writer of the LBBI first targets an employment behavior that needs improvement or further development” (52). They then explain that the writer of the LBBI should target the specific behavior and replace it with the behavior that is acceptable. By doing this, the employee understands that there is something wrong with the way they are doing a task and they are taught a new, more efficient way to do the task. Finally, the best thing to do in implementing this type of intervention is allow the person to know and understand that the LBBI was made specifically for them and that they can refer back to it at any time in order to help them do their jobs more effectively. The important factors to take into account when implementing an intervention plan is to do the following:

Create an intervention that is within the comprehension and language levels of the individual for whom it is being created, decide whether some type of illustration might improve the effectiveness of the intervention. The illustration might include photographs line drawings, comic-strip style illustrations, clip art, or even links to sounds and video (53).

Practitioners can implement many different intervention programs for many different types of people. The article states that it is easy to do as long as the practitioner knows that it will take work and will take a little time for the person to get accustomed to the new changes. But, in order for it to be successful, the practitioner should develop it for an individual, give the individual clear instructions on how it is going to help him or her, and allow that individual to take his or her time learning to implement it for themselves with the help of their practitioner. It is stated that LBBI’s and other intervention programs are there to “furnish information that helps individuals know what to do in a given situation” (Bucholz & Brady, 2008, p. 54) and this is exactly the truth.

References

Bucholz, J. L., & Brady, M. P. (2008). An intervention for students and employees with developmental disabilities. Teaching exceptional children, 41(2), 50-55.