ACQUISITION OF BASIC CONCEPTS BY CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES USING A COMPUTER-ASSISTED-LEARNING APPROACH

Computer-assisted learning fan be an efficient learning-teaching proce dure. Although there is an extensive educational software tradition fo r this approach, few have better performance than standard drill-and-p ractice methods. In this work, the specific software ''Let's Ray With. ..'' was designed to teach concepts of colours, shapes, and body posit ion to children with intellectual disabilities. The software structure follows the Gagne instructional design and applied behaviour analysis . The program was carried out with 39 boys and 21 girls who were speci al education students in the Cadiz School District. Statistically sign ificant differences were found between groups taught with and without the software.