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The Effects of Lockdown of Work and Activities for Adults with Multiple, Complex Needs Including Sensory Impairments during the Pandemic in 2020
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Trine Lise Bakken; Bodil Ellingsen – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Sheltered work and leisure activities were locked down in at the Signo centre in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Signo centre is a Norwegian national centre for adults with multiple, complex needs, including severe sensory loss/impairments. Tension and uncertainty rapidly spread among relatives and workers. To explore the impacts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Multiple Disabilities, COVID-19
Holding and Professional Care: On Self-Determination for Persons with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
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Skarsaune, Synne Nese; Hanisch, Halvor Melbye – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2023
Persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PMID) are in danger of not being granted the human right to experience self-determination. Attitudes questioning the relevance of the rights of persons with significant support needs and a lack of guidance on how to practically go about ensuring self-determination might explain this.…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Civil Rights
Mental Health Services for Autistic People with Intellectual Disability: An Exploratory Study on Patient and Treatment Characteristics, and Intervention-Outcome Associations
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Jane Margrete Askeland Hellerud; Catherine Anne Nicole Lorentzen; Arvid Nikolai Kildahl; Kjell Ivar Øvergård; Sissel Berge Helverschou – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: Autistic people with co-occurring intellectual disability have a high risk of mental disorders. This study aimed to investigate specialized mental health services for this group, emphasizing inpatient/outpatient treatment, patient characteristics, interventions, and outcomes. Methods: The current study used data from a Norwegian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability