‘I Got To Answer the Way I Wanted To’: Intellectual Disabilities and Participation in Technology Design Activities

Learning to read is challenging for children who have hearing impairments and concurrent intellectual disabilities because they face barriers due to both conditions. In many developmental domains, including executive functioning and language development, auditory and intellectual disabilities mutually influence each other; a deficit in one domain hinders coping mechanisms to compensate for distortions in the other. The resulting impact is more than the sum of the parts. It affects the way students learn to read and the way they process written text in many ways. Little is known about the key factors in literacy development for children with both hearing impairments and intellectual disabilities. This chapter integrates recent findings on reading development in children with both of these conditions to define a research base for two exploratory studies on literacy attainment in these learners. Recommendations for literacy education are based on these studies.

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Trudności w realizacji ról rodzicielskich rodziców dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną

Kiedy myślimy rodzina... ◽

10.15633/9788374385091.17 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 231-248

Author(s):

Dorota Tomczyszyn

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Parental Roles ◽

Care Services ◽

The Disabled ◽

Child With A Disability ◽

The Way

The paper presents the results of research on difficulties in realization of parental roles of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The author has surveyed 222 parents of children with intellectual disabilities, including 111 mothers and 111 fathers. The research was completed in 2013 and 2014 in the Lublin Province. On the basis of parents’ declarations it can be seen that most respondents did not encounter difficulties in the professional sphere or the sphere of marriage, but in tasks connected with raising a child with a disability. Problems that appear in parenting children with disabilities concern most often health care services, rehabilitation and the way the disabled are treated by others.

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Intellectual Disabilities and Dystopian Visions: Ayn Rand and Edgar Rice Burroughs

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ◽

10.1352/1934-9556-51.3.201 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 201-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. David Smith ◽

Edward A. Polloway

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Human Condition ◽

Ayn Rand ◽

High Regard ◽

The Impact ◽

The Way ◽

The Human Condition

Abstract Most cultures have respect for and respond positively to individuals who make significant literary contributions to the way that people understand life and society. While the impact of literature may vary widely, those individuals deemed to have added important perspectives through their writing are often elevated to positions of high regard and influence. Thus, their work becomes important to our understanding of the human condition, including the meaning of disability.

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Computers in building design

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering ◽

10.1139/l88-087 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 673-678

Author(s):

Claude Bédard

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Design Process ◽

Building Design ◽

Design Team ◽

Preliminary Design ◽

Design Activities ◽

Design Projects ◽

Design Integration ◽

The Way

The process of designing buildings presents characteristics that set it apart from the design process in other engineering fields. Traditionally, computers have been assigned the number-crunching and bookkeeping tasks in building design activities. Also, few participants in the design team have used computers on a regular basis. However, many changes are taking place which will affect the way a building design is carried out and the contribution computers could make in the process. All factors appear to advocate greater use of computers to achieve better designs. Three active areas of development are finally presented to illustrate new roles computers could assume in future building design projects. Key words: building design process, algorithm, synthesis/analysis, preliminary design, integration.

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Police officer perspectives on intellectual disability

Policing An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management ◽

10.1108/pijpsm-03-2015-0039 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 222-235 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Danielle Maya Eadens ◽

Ann Cranston-Gingras ◽

Errol Dupoux ◽

Daniel Wayne Eadens

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Police Officer ◽

Police Officers ◽

Content Type ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Minority Participants ◽

Female Officers ◽

Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities ◽

The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine police officer perceptions about persons with intellectual disabilities. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, 188 officers from three police districts in the Southeast USA were surveyed using a modified Social Distance Questionnaire. Findings – Results indicate that the majority of police officers surveyed had little or no training with regard to disabilities and that most are willing to interact socially with individuals with intellectual disabilities. Further, this study found that female officers had significantly greater positive attitudes toward individuals with intellectual disabilities than male respondents and that white respondents were more knowledgeable about these individuals than those from minority backgrounds. Research limitations/implications – While these results are significant, it should be noted that the number of female and minority participants was relatively low. Practical implications – The paper includes recommendations for professional development for police officer and criminal justice training programs. Social implications – As individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities are increasingly integrated into society, their vulnerability to mishandling by the criminal justice system and police officers intensifies. This paper allows police officers and those within the field of criminal justice an opportunity to examine perceptions as they seek to understand how police and general societal perceptions impact the way that people interact with persons with intellectual disabilities. Originality/value – This paper fulfills a need to examine attitudes of police officers toward citizens with intellectual disabilities in the communities in which they live. These attitudes often affect the way that police officers interact with citizens and identify additional training needs to better prepare officers for diverse individuals they may will encounter.

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The Way of Information to Knowledge Required in Design Activity

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.760.75 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 760 ◽

pp. 75-80

Author(s):

Eugen Pămîntaş

Keyword(s):

Engineering Design ◽

Design Activity ◽

Design Work ◽

Improve Design ◽

Design Activities ◽

Specialized Form ◽

A Company ◽

The Way

Engineering design work is based on the use of information in their specialized form of knowledge. How information becomes knowledge, how knowledge is extracted, documented, stored, communicated and disseminated are still so many problems to be solved in order to improve design activities of a company.

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Quality of Life Using Music Therapy Elements for People with Intellectual Disabilities

SOCIETY INTEGRATION EDUCATION Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ◽

10.17770/sie2015vol3.393 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 165

Author(s):

Aldona Moceviciene ◽

Ilga Prudņikova

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Music Therapy ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Life Quality ◽

Intellectually Disabled ◽

Quality Optimization ◽

Limited Space ◽

People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽

The Way

Quality of life include all aspects of the way we live our lives. They allow us to fulfil our needs and aspirations. On the basis of results of the research possibile to make a confirmation that music, sociocultural activities using music therapy elements for people with intellectual disabilitiess influented expanding possibilities self-expression, activating self-action, stimulating self-conception. Said elements of socialization impowering those people self – realizing through cultural — artistic activities, sociocultural projects. That one componded efective „normal“ and intellectually disabled citizens communication and cooperation. Thus possible life quality optimization for people with mental deseases in abilities limited space.

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Photovoice—Towards Engaging and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities in Innovation

Life ◽

10.3390/life10110272 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 272

Author(s):

Sofie Wass ◽

Mugula Chris Safari

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Assistive Technology ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Innovation Process ◽

User Involvement ◽

User Needs ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Design Activities ◽

People With Intellectual Disabilities

E-health and welfare technology offer new ways to support health and social care delivery. While initiatives are made to engage disadvantaged user groups in innovation, people with intellectual disabilities tend to be excluded from design activities. This is a concern as this group can benefit from the use of assistive technology. However, it can be time-consuming and challenging to involve end-users in the design of technology. This calls for processes that are creative, empowering and that facilitate user involvement. In this study, we report and reflect on the process of using photovoice to understand user needs and to empower participants with intellectual disability in an innovation process. Nine persons with intellectual disability participated in photovoice to identify user needs connected to the design of assistive technology. The findings in our study suggest that the use of photovoice can contribute to the sharing of contextual and individual needs and an empowerment process that includes coping, self-determination and ownership. Photovoice can be a tool to reduce or remove some of the challenges that are faced when identifying user needs and is a way to strengthen the individual’s capacity to cope with the demands of participating in an innovation process.

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Remember as Re-membering: The Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Profound Intellectual Disability

Studia Liturgica ◽

10.1177/0039320720946040 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 152-162

Author(s):

Julie Marie Land

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Lord's Supper ◽

The Body ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

1 Corinthians ◽

The Social ◽

Church And Society ◽

The Church ◽

The Way

In 1 Cor 11:17-34 Paul reprimands the Corinthians for the way in which they gather for worship, and addresses the Corinthians’ situation with the words of institution. This paper, exploring how the Lord’s Supper is importantly related to discerning the body of Christ and the church’s response to people on the social margins, pursues a question of the contemporary church: are we eating rightly? An examination of 1 Cor 11:17-34 reveals that the Lord’s Supper criticizes developments in society that have come to base the worth of bodies on their ability to meet society’s prized values of achievement, consumption, and production. Bodies that do not meet these aims are positioned as problems. This paper argues that people with profound intellectual disabilities, who often are placed on the social margins of both church and society, have much to teach about what it means to gather and be with one another as the church.

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