Browsing by Subject "Intellectual disability"
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Item Deep pressure therapy (DPT) use in the reduction of challenging behaviors for an individual with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability(2016-08) Ota, Michael Thomas; Falcomata, Terry S.; Payee, Barbara; Zuna, NinaSensory integration therapy (SIT) has been used as an intervention for sensory sensitivities in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for decades without clear empirical evidence of its efficacy. Recent research has supported the use of deep pressure therapy (DPT) when applied in varying degrees to the upper body. The T.Jacket (an app-driven vest with air bladders and pump) is an emerging and novel approach to DPT. This single-subject study examined the effects of the T.Jacket on off-task behavior and challenging behaviors in an individual adolescent with ASD, speech impairment, and intellectual disability. Experimental control was not established across all settings and phases for off-task behavior and challenging behaviors. Rationale is given for future research in an area of symptoms recently recognized in the DSM-5 (i.e., hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input) for ASD yet has little to no empirically based intervention.Item Legal aspects of the right to education for the mentally retarded(1975) Mullen, Sandra McNaughton, 1942-; Not availableItem Relationships between IQ and language development across language domains in bilingual children(2016-05) Briseno, Jennifer Renee; Bedore, Lisa M.; Franco, Jessica HThe current study examined if Spanish-English bilingual children with extremely low IQ and average IQ demonstrated similar language development and which language variables were associated with increases or decreases in IQ development. Given the literature, we proposed the following hypotheses: children with extremely low IQ will demonstrate lower than expected language scores than their matched average IQ peer, and children that demonstrate increases in IQ across time will demonstrate increases in language scores. We examined two pairs of bilingual children matched on SES, bilingual status, and age. Despite variability in outcomes, we found a general increase in language measures, which suggests that measures utilized were not directly related to IQ development, but rather demonstrate a more general relationship between language domains and IQ.Item Resource guide for speech-language practitioners : side effects of seizure medications(2014-05) Ho, Jennifer Le; Davis, Barbara L. (Barbara Lockett)Side effects of seizure medications in individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) may affect speech and language development for this population. Research information about these effects may be useful for speech-language pathologist practitioners, since they will most likely work in environments that involve assessing and treating individuals with ID. In this meta-analysis, a total of 19 articles were reviewed to examine the side effects of AEDs in individuals with ID and seizure disorders. Side effects from AEDs were found; however, research regarding how AEDs and seizure disorders affected speech and language development was not available. Based on the findings, participants on AEDs regimens experienced a variety of side effects that included behavioral side effects, adverse cognitive side effects, and non-behavioral side effects. However, information regarding AEDs side effects and speech and language development was nonexistent. Based on the findings, further research in this is much needed for practicing speech-language pathologists in this topic.Item Suelen callar : the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities in Guatemala(2011-08) Serrano, Samantha Lynn; Garrard-Burnett, Virginia, 1957-; Dom�nguez Ruvalcaba, HectorThe understandings and treatments of the sexual rights of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities vary in different societies. However, one issue that is common in most societies is that this group of people experiences the highest rates of sexual violence and is regularly a-sexualized. Much attention has been paid to the increasingly visible issues of sexual violence in Latin America in a gendered and racial context, however recent scholarship has neglected to look at sexual violence in the context of people with disabilities. In this text, I aim to uncover how the human rights, and more specifically, sexual rights, are understood and treated for this highly marginalized group of people in Guatemala, a country that has endured heavy amounts of violence and trauma both contemporarily and historically. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted at institutions for disability services in urban Guatemala, I paint a picture of how the contemporary social and political climate involving violence, nearly complete impunity for crimes, culturally engrained patriarchal norms and neoliberal policies affect this group of people who are often depoliticized through patronizing portrayals in media and the public arena. Using in depth investigations of Guatemalan law and observational work and interviews conducted in public government-funded institutions, NGOs and non-profit organizations and human rights organizations, I seek to reveal the paradigms within the disparate types of institutions for understanding and treating people with disabilities. By questioning the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities, I seek to examine the different ways cognitive disability has been socially constructed in Guatemala and the different reasons behind this group's social abandonment and high rates of sexual violence towards them. This work problematizes medical and charity models utilized for understanding disability that have been implemented through law, institutional and public policies, and societal misconceptions. This research also challenges Western disability policies and conceptions that have been imposed in developing countries like Guatemala, and questions the possibility to create spaces of local disability rights activism in spite of high risk factors for violence and neoliberal policies that limit political protest.