Chapter 9: Using Video Modeling in Conducting Research with Young Children

The use of video modeling as an intervention for children with disabilities has been established as an evidence-based practice (Wang & Spillane, 2009). The term video modeling is the general term to classify interventions in which students view a video clip of a task or skill being performed followed by an opportunity to perform the task or skill. Video modeling encompasses interventions that use other-as-model (e.g., peer or adult), interventions that use the self-as-model (video self-modeling), and interventions that use person-point-of-view (no modeling). Person point of modeling shows a task or skill being performed from the observer’s vantage point which does not include a model although in some cases a person’s hands may be included.