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Lisa Donaldson; Donna O'Brien; Marek Karas – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: People with a learning disability experience challenges accessing primary health care services, including eye care services. Methods: Eye care needs of people with a learning disability, and how well they are met by existing services in England, were explored. Barriers and enablers to accessing these services were investigated. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Health Care, Vision, Affordances
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Marek Karas; Donna O'Brien; Lance Campbell; Rebecca Lunness; Joanne Kennedy; Grace McGill; Stephen Kill; Lisa Donaldson – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Documented inequalities in access to eye care for people with learning disabilities and/or autism are caused by poor uptake of primary eye care services, poor identification of eye problems, lack of signposting and reasonable adjustments of existing services, concerns about costs of care and the low priority historically given to these…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disabilities
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Roemer, Miriam; Verheul, Ellen; Velthausz, Frank – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: To support people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), it is essential to understand how they experience their environment. Insight into perception behaviour may provide an entry point for improved understanding. Materials and Methods: A random sample of a 30-min video registration of five participants with PIMD…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Perception, Video Technology