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Enhancing the emotion recognition skills of individuals with learning disabilities: a review of the literature
- Authors:
- WOOD Pamela Margaret, KROESE Biza Stenfert
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(6), November 2007, pp.576-579.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that individuals with intellectual disabilities experience significant difficulties in recognizing facial expressions of emotion. The aim of this review was to address whether such skills can be enhanced amongst individuals with intellectual disabilities. The PsychInfo database on Dialog DataStar (1972–2006) was searched for all published journal articles investigating whether emotion recognition skills can be enhanced amongst individuals with intellectual disabilities. Four relevant articles were identified. Training in emotion recognition skills resulted in improvements in all four studies, with one study maintaining improvements at 8-month follow-up. The four published studies identified that emotion recognition skills can be enhanced and maintained over time. Despite claims in the literature that training in emotion recognition skills will enhance the social skills of individuals with intellectual disabilities, none of the studies considered the impact of training upon everyday functioning, leaving the ultimate efficacy of such training open to question.
'What it is like to be us'
- Author:
- CALLAGHAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.11.07, 2007, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A group of people with learning disabilities is providing training to professionals about their needs. The author looks at the work of Trainers for Change (T4C) which recently picked up a Skills for Care accolade for its innovative work.
Partnerships for training: an easy access pack for developing equal training partnerships with people with a learning disability
- Authors:
- JONES Jane, ROBERTSON Christopher
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 45p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This easy access pack is for experienced trainers and people with learning disabilities who want to work together to do training as equal partners. The pack is made up of a workbook and a DVD-ROM. The workbook includes sections on developing an equal partnership, planning and practising training sessions, and reviewing how actual training went. The DVD-ROM contains video clips illustrating good and bad practice and has been designed to make it easy to use.
Effects of an awareness program on attitudes of students without an intellectual disability towards persons with an intellectual disability
- Authors:
- RILLOTTA Fiona, NETTLEBECK Ted
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 32(1), March 2007, pp.19-27.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study tested whether social and educational integration combined with training in awareness of disability for secondary school students resulted in more positive, long-lasting attitudes about educational and social inclusion of people with an intellectual disability. Attitudes of 259 participants (116 males, 143 females) were assessed by questionnaire. Effects of awareness of disability programs (ADPs) were tested by comparing attitudes of current secondary school students participating in a 3-session or 8-session ADP (n = 67) and past students who had participated in a 10-session ADP 8 years prior to the present study (n = 46), with same-age controls without training (n = 146). Students completing 8-session ADPs reported more favourable attitudes than students in the 3-session ADP and peers without training. Past students' attitudes were also highly positive, compared with same-age controls without training. ADP programs can promote positive attitudes towards people with an intellectual disability. Such training may have long-term benefits.
Staff training and challenging behaviour: who needs it?
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 11(2), June 2007, pp.143-156.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
Staff working directly with people who have challenging behaviour in learning disability services need to be D good at what they do. These staff are trained by their employers to manage and to treat challenging behaviours and to improve the quality of life of people in their care. While such training is generally well evaluated by care staff, there is limited evidence that training alone changes poor attitudes or improves staff performance. Training has not been linked to quality of outcomes for service users. From research on treating challenging behaviour, achieving maintenance of behavioural gains after treatment has been discontinued is the exception rather than the rule. Can the same be said for maintaining gains achieved through staff training in the area of challenging behaviour? This discussion article reviews the value of training for staff working with people with challenging behaviour.
Self advocacy training project: People First Fraserburgh
- Author:
- PEOPLE FIRST FRASERBURGH
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
An accessible report by People First (Fraserburgh) of a project to develop training which will help people with learning difficulties speak up for themselves is presented. The aim of the training is also to help staff who work in local authorities and other jobs understand why people can have difficulty speaking up for themselves.
Our vote, our voice: peer training about elections by people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- OUTSIDE THE BOX
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 84p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Outside the Box has been working with people who have learning difficulties This is an information pack about elections. The pack has: information about making choices; information about finding out who is in charge; information about voting and keeping in touch with the people you elected; a list of useful contacts; ideas that other people and groups have tried and a glossary of difficult words.
Progression through partnership: a joint strategy between the DfES, DH and DWP on the role of further education and training in supporting people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to achieve fulfilling lives
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government is committed to improving the life chances of people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. It wants to develop services which centre around the needs of disabled people and provide seamless support to help everyone achieve their full potential. This report sets out a vision of how the departments most closely involved in this area will work together to deliver high quality support and incentives for young people and adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in further education and training.
Work integration of people with disabilities in the regular labour market: what can we do to improve these processes?
- Authors:
- VILA Montserrat, PALLISERA Maria, FULLANA Judit
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 32(1), March 2007, pp.10-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In this Spanish research thematic content analysis techniques, using semi-structured group interviews, were used to identify analyse how different factors related to family, work and training, interact to influence work integration of people with disabilities by means of supported employment. Thirty-two professionals from 17 agencies provided information regarding the role of the family, training, workplace monitoring, the work setting, and personal resources of the worker. The results indicated that family, training (prior to and during the integration service), monitoring of the worker in the workplace, and work setting were relevant and contributing aspects of the process of work integration. A real and effective commitment on the part of the government is required to regulate and provide resources to create supported employment services and to allow these services to plan their own interventions, keeping in mind the relevance of and relationship between aspects such as family, training, workplace monitoring, the work setting and personal resources of the worker.
Can brief workshop interventions change care staff understanding of challenging behaviours?
- Authors:
- DOWEY Alan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(1), January 2007, pp.52-57.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The working culture surrounding challenging behaviour may have a strong effect on staff behaviour. As a first step to influencing staff talk about challenging behaviour, the aim of the present study was to explore whether a 1-day training workshop could have an effect on staff causal explanations. Fifty-four front line staff, in six separate groups, completed an adapted version of the Self-Injury Behavioural Understanding Questionnaire (SIBUQ; Oliver et al. 1996) both before and after a 1-day training workshop. The workshops were based on principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis. The SIBUQ comprised questions about causes of challenging behaviours presented in 11 short scenarios. The four possible response options for each scenario reflected behaviourally correct, behaviourally incorrect, internal emotional, and internal organic causal explanations. The number of correct behavioural causal hypotheses increased significantly from pre- to post-training. The proportion of incorrect causal explanations that were behavioural in orientation also increased significantly from pre- to post-training. Staff causal explanations for challenging behaviour can be changed using a relatively brief intervention. Further research is needed to establish whether such changes can be used to influence working culture in challenging behaviour services.