PREVENTING HIV: A CD-ROM PROGRAM FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION

该项目将制作一系列四个完全互动的CD- ROM程序，旨在防止艾滋病毒在患有轻度认知和/或发育障碍（DD）的青少年中传播。虽然患有DD的青少年与其他青少年一样拥有同样的公民权利和人权，但他们在性行为方面往往准备不足，无法做出正确的决定。这些项目将满足这一需求。将采用直接指导（DI）教学方法，促进掌握DD学生做出安全性行为选择所需的决策和社交技能。该计划将促进：(a)选择放弃性交，(b)认识和应对高风险的性情况，以及(c)如果决定变得性活跃，适当使用屏障方法。通过交互过程，用户将观察、评估和指导屏幕上模特的行为，并能够看到不安全的性选择的后果。该程序将分析用户做出的选择，并提供即时反馈和针对特定错误的补救措施。该项目的第一阶段将制作和评估一个针对高中男生的原型程序。在第二阶段，将完成针对高中女生和初中男女的另外3个项目。这些CD-ROM产品的市场包括所有向青少年和年轻人提供有关性行为的教育或信息材料的机构（例如，初中和高中健康诊所，特殊教育服务和课程，州，县和市卫生部门和性病诊所，计划生育诊所）。

This project will produce a series of four fully interactive CD- ROM programs designed to prevent the spread of HIV among adolescents with mild cognitive and/or developmental disabilities (DD). While adolescents with DD have the same civil and human rights as other youth, they are frequently ill-prepared to make good decisions about sexual activity. These programs will meet that need. Direct instruction (DI) teaching methods will be used to facilitate mastery learning of the decision-making and social skills necessary for DD students to make safer sexual choices. The program will promote: (a) choosing to abstain from sexual intercourse, (b) recognizing and responding to high-risk sexual situations, and (c) appropriately using barrier methods if the decision is made to become sexually active. Through an interactive process, users will observe, assess, and direct the behavior of on-screen models, and be able to view the consequences of unsafe sexual choices. The program will analyze the choices made by the user and will provide immediate feedback and error-specific remediation. Phase I of this project will produce and evaluate a prototype program, targeting high school males. In Phase II three additional programs targeting high school females and middle school males and females will be completed. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION The market for these CD-ROM products includes all agencies that provide educational or informational materials to adolescents and young adults regarding sexual behavior (e.g., middle and high school health clinics, special education services and classes, state, county, and city health departments and STD clinics, Planned Parenthood clinics.