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Evaluating a Visual Communications Tool to Explore Risk and Safety with Nurses and Patients within an Intellectual Disability Forensic Service: A Pilot Study
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Quinn, Sam; Rhynas, Sarah J.; Gowland, Susan; Cameron, Lois; Braid, Nicola; Holloway, Aisha; O'Connor, Siobhan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: Issues of risk and safety can be challenging to discuss with forensic patients with an intellectual disability. Talking Mats is a visual communication tool that facilitates therapeutic conversations. Method: A pilot study, adopting an ethnographic approach, was used to evaluate Talking Mats. Interviews and video observations were…
Descriptors: Safety, Intellectual Disability, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Nurses
Increasing Day Service Staff Capacity to Facilitate Positive Relationships with People with Severe Intellectual Disability: Evaluation of a New Intervention Using Multiple Baseline Design
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Johnson, Hilary; Bigby, Christine; Iacono, Teresa; Douglas, Jacinta; Katthagen, Sarah; Bould, Emma – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2017
Background: The social relationships model was developed to describe positive relationships between support staff and people with intellectual disability. We evaluated an educational intervention based on this model. Method: Eighteen staff supporting 5 adult service users with severe or profound intellectual disability from 3 day services received…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Caregivers, Adults, Severe Intellectual Disability
Evaluating the Impact of a Virtual Educational Intervention on Medical Students' Knowledge and Attitudes towards Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Berger, I.; Weissman, S.; Raheel, H.; Bagga, A.; Wright, R.; Leung, F.; Loh, A.; Lee-Jones, C.; Isaacs, B.; Vogt, J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: Research suggests physicians may harbour paternalistic attitudes towards people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and lack the knowledge and skills to work with them. This study examined the impact of a brief intellectual and developmental disability curriculum intervention on these outcomes. Methods: First-year medical…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Intellectual Disability
Adaptation in Families Raising Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Part II: What Would Help
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Coons, Kelly D.; Watson, Shelley L.; Yantzi, Nicole M.; Schinke, Robert J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2018
Background: Our aim in this paper is to build upon the experience of family adaptation and to describe one unique stressor experienced by adoptive parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) that may hinder successful family adaptation. Method: Fifty-one adoptive parents of children with FASD from 36 families in Ontario,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Clinical Diagnosis, Family Relationship
Identifying the Important Factors Associated with Teaching Sex Education to People with Intellectual Disability: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Paid Care Staff
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Schaafsma, Dilana; Kok, Gerjo; Stoffelen, Joke M. T.; van Doorn, Paulien; Curfs, Leopold M. G. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2014
Background: Sex education programs have been developed with paid care staff as sex educators. However, no information is available about whether these programs are being delivered. Method: The aim of this study was to investigate whether paid care staff working in an organisation specialised in the care of people with mild to moderate intellectual…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Caregiver Role, Mild Intellectual Disability
The Impact of Partner Training on the Communicative Involvement of Students with Multiple and Severe Disability in Special Schools
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Foreman, Phil; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Pascoe, Sue – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2007
Background: The outcomes of a pilot program of staff development in communication support in the context of observed changes in student behaviour states and interactive abilities are reported. Participant reports about the impact of the program on their professional practices are included. Method: Six teachers and six teacher aides in special…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Teacher Aides, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness