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Teachers interpersonal style and its relationship to emotions, causal attributions, and type of challenging behaviors displayed by students with intellectual disabilities
Teachers’ interpersonal style is a new field of research in the study of students with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviors in school context. In the present study, we investigate emotions and causal attributions of three basic types of challenging behaviors: aggression, stereotypy, and self-injury, in relation to teachers’ interpersonal style. One hundred and seventy seven Greek general and special educator teachers participated in the study by completing a three-scaled questionnaire. Statistical analysis revealed that the type of challenging behaviors affected causal attributions. According to ...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - August 21, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Alevriadou, A., Pavlidou, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Facing the research challenge
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Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - August 21, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Northway, R. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Circles of Support and personalization: Exploring the economic case
Circles of Support aim to enable people with learning disabilities (and others) to live full lives as part of their communities. As part of a wider study of the economic case for community capacity building conducted from 2012 to 2014, we conducted a mixed methods study of five Circles in North West England. Members of these Circles were supporting adults with moderate to profound learning disabilities and provided accounts of success in enabling the core member to live more independent lives with improved social care outcomes within cost envelopes that appeared to be less than more traditional types of support. The Circle...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Wistow, G., Perkins, M., Knapp, M., Bauer, A., Bonin, E.-M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Peer advocacy in a personalized landscape: The role of peer support in a context of individualized support and austerity
Whilst personalization offers the promise of more choice and control and wider participation in the community, the reality in the United Kingdom has been hampered by local council cuts and a decline in formal services. This has left many people with intellectual disabilities feeling dislocated from collective forms of support (Needham, 2015). What fills this gap and does peer advocacy have a role to play? Drawing on a co-researched study undertaken with and by persons with intellectual disabilities, we examined what role peer advocacy can play in a context of reduced day services, austerity and individualized support. The ...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Power, A., Bartlett, R., Hall, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Linking user and staff perspectives in the evaluation of innovative transition projects for youth with disabilities
A key challenge in formative evaluation is to gather appropriate evidence to inform the continuous improvement of initiatives. In the absence of outcome data, the programme evaluator often must rely on the perceptions of beneficiaries and staff in generating insight into what is making a difference. The article describes the approach adopted in an evaluation of 15 innovative projects supporting school-leavers with disabilities in making the transition to education, work and life in community settings. Two complementary processes provided an insight into what project staff and leadership viewed as the key project activities...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: McAnaney, D. F., Wynne, R. F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The role of support staff as people move from congregated settings to group homes and personalized arrangements in Ireland
In this study, 32 staff and the 16 people with intellectual disabilities they supported to move from congregated settings to group homes or personalized living arrangements in the community were interviewed on two occasions, before (time 1) and after (time 2) the move. In congregated settings, staff steered the move to community living, they helped them to settle in community group homes and supported them to increase control over their lives in personalized community arrangements, where they support became increasingly more personalized and geared towards community participation and development of social relationships. Im...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Garcia Iriarte, E., Stockdale, J., McConkey, R., Keogh, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Perspectives of family members of people with an intellectual disability to a major reconfiguration of living arrangements for people with intellectual disability in Ireland
Conclusion: The family perspective to reform is characterized by fear and suspicion of the motivation behind these reforms, with cost efficiencies being perceived as a main driver. Greater information is required to empower families to make informed decisions. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: ODoherty, S., Linehan, C., Tatlow-Golden, M., Craig, S., Kerr, M., Lynch, C., Staines, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Personalization, self-advocacy and inclusion: An evaluation of parent-initiated supported living schemes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Netherlands
This study focused on parent-initiated supported living schemes in the South of the Netherlands and the ability of these living schemes to enhance participation, choice, autonomy and self-advocacy for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities through personalized planning, support and care. Based on in-depth interviews with tenants, parents and caregivers, findings included that parent-initiated supported housing schemes made steps towards stimulating self-advocacy and autonomy for tenants. However, overprotective and paternalistic attitudes expressed by a significant number of parents, as well as structural c...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Reindl, M.-S., Waltz, M., Schippers, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Relocating people with intellectual disability to new accommodation and support settings: Contrasts between personalized arrangements and group home placements
This study contrasted three groups of persons in Ireland who moved either to personalized arrangements (n = 29) or to community group homes (n = 31) with those who remained in congregated settings awaiting relocation (n = 29). Persons moving to rented accommodation with personalized support tended to be younger and had fewer support needs than those in group homes. They had greater control and choice in their lives, more community engagement and increased personal relationships compared to residents in group homes but those remaining in congregated settings fared worse of all. However, average staff costs were significantl...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: McConkey, R., Keogh, F., Bunting, B., Garcia Iriarte, E., Watson, S. F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Examples of individual supported living for adults with intellectual disability
Conclusion: Fifty evaluations so far illustrated a wide range of approaches to ISL, providing evidence of the critical importance of the formal and informal support environment and reinforcing the contention that ISL is appropriate for people with high support needs. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Cocks, E., Thoresen, S. H., OBrien, P., McVilly, K., Thomson, A., Gadow, F., Crosbie, J., Prain, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Personalization of services and supports: Evolution or revolution?
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Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - May 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: McConkey, R., Keogh, F. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Book review: Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance
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Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - February 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Dalton, C. Tags: Book review Source Type: research

Brennas story: A critical reflection and analysis of one mothers experience of navigating the medical system with a child with intellectual disabilities
This article is one mother’s personal story and reflection about her journey through the Canadian health-care system in Nova Scotia, with her daughter who has an intellectual disability. The reflection identifies moments of tension experienced by a mother and how she was expected to be a medical system navigator, doctor–educator, time manager, and care coordinator and the roles that led to feelings of repression, extreme frustration, and fear. A final discussion offers an analysis of her experience, using concepts from feminist post-structuralism. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - February 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Bye, A., Aston, M. Tags: Review article Source Type: research

Social pedagogy as a model to provide support for siblings of children with intellectual disabilities: A report of the views of the children and young people using a sibling support group
This article reports the views of 39 children taking part in such a group, analysing their perspective through a proposed model for the operation of sibling groups: social pedagogy. It was found that the closer the group’s activities were to social pedagogy, the more supported the children and young people felt. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - February 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Carter, S., Cook, J., Sutton-Boulton, G., Ward, V., Clarke, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Implementation of an evidence-based seizure algorithm in intellectual disability nursing: A pilot study
Based on the results of the Surrogate Decision-Making Self Efficacy Scale (Lopez, 2009a), this study sought to determine whether nurses working in the field of intellectual disability (ID) experience increased confidence when they implemented the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) Seizure Algorithm during telephone triage. The results of the study indicated using the AANN Seizure Algorithm increased self-confidence for many of the nurses in guiding care decisions during telephone triage. The treatment effect was statistically significant –3.169(p < 0.01) for a small sample of study participants. Th...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - February 9, 2016 Category: Disability Authors: Auberry, K., Cullen, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research