Video Modeling

Video modeling is an intervention that uses video recording and display equipment to provide a visual model of the targeted behavior or skill. VM is often combined with prompting and reinforcement to maximize the viewer’s ability to learn what they have seen. Types of video modeling include:

• basic video modeling,
• video self-modeling,
• point-of-view video modeling, and
• video prompting.

Basic video modeling involves recording someone besides the learner engaging in the target behavior or skill (i.e., models). The learner then views the video at a later time. Video self-modeling is used to record the learner displaying the target skill or behavior and is reviewed later. In point-of-view video modeling, the target behavior or skill is recorded from the perspective of the learner. Video prompting involves breaking the skill into steps and recording each step with incorporated pauses during which the learner may attempt the step before viewing subsequent steps. Video prompting may be done with either the learner or someone else acting as a model.