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Police contact with young people with cognitive disabilities: perceptions of procedural (In)justice
- Authors:
- ELLEM Kathy, RICHARDS Kelly
- Journal article citation:
- Youth Justice, 18(3), 2018, pp.230-247.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The interactions of police with young people with cognitive disabilities (YPWCD) have seldom been considered in research, even though this group is over-represented in the criminal justice system. This article presents the results of a qualitative study into YPWCD’s experiences with police in Queensland, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with service providers who work with YPWCD and YPWCD themselves. The procedural justice perspective was used as an analytic framework to provide an insight into YPWCD’s relationships with the police. Findings point to ways in which police can better respond to YPWCD in procedurally just ways, as well as to the role that family and service providers might play in supporting this outcome. (Publisher abstract)
Understanding friendship: young adults with Down syndrome exploring relationships
- Authors:
- JOBLING Anne, MONI Karen B., NOLAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 25(3), September 2000, pp.235-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article describes a six session programme that designed to help a group of young adults with Down syndrome understand friendships better. The Down Syndrome Research Programme LATCH-ON staff at the University of Queensland developed the programme in conjunction with the Queensland Family Planning Association. During the sessions, the students explored and discussed various types of friendships and the emotions associated with them, using the students' own experiences and videos in conjunction with structured materials such as The Circle Concept and Network Hand. Some reflections from the authors' experiences with the programme are provided. Future research directions are suggested.
Belonging and exclusion in the lives of young people with intellectual disability in small town communities
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Sally, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 24(1), 2020, pp.50-68.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
In recent policies, it is assumed that communities welcome the inclusion of young people with intellectual disability. However, little is known about perspectives of young people themselves. This article reports on research that sought to address this gap. Young people with intellectual disability living in three Australian small town communities participated in pictorial mapping and photo-rich methods to explore belonging and exclusion and links between these. Young people’s feelings of comfort and safety with local spaces and people were important for their sense of belonging. Emplaced relationships with family and some friends were key to strong belonging, as were positive attachments to disability support workers and spaces. Social exclusion, either from particular places or more generally, was keenly felt. Young people’s confidence, willingness to enter social spaces and relationships were magnified by ways that systems responded to their impairment, at worst fracturing their sense of feeling welcome and included. (Publisher abstract)
Exploring quality of life of children with cerebral palsy and intellectual disability: what are the important domains of life?
- Authors:
- DAVIS E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 43(6), 2017, pp.854-860.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: Although it is estimated that half of all children with cerebral palsy also have comorbid intellectual disability, the domains of quality of life (QOL) important for these children are not well understood. The aim of this study was to identify important domains of QOL for these children and adolescents. Methods: Due to the children's communication impairments, qualitative semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 18 parents. The children (9 males) had a median age of 12 (range 7 to 17) years at interview and nearly two thirds were classified as Gross Motor Function Classification System IV or V. A grounded theory approach was used to identify domains of QOL. Results: The 11 domains identified as important to QOL were physical health, body comfort, behaviour and emotion, communication, predictability and routine, movement and physical activity, nature and outdoors, variety of activity, independence and autonomy, social connectedness, and access to services. Conclusions: The domains of QOL that emerged from this study will be useful for professionals who support children with cerebral palsy and their families. They will also be important for developing a QOL instrument essential for informing the development of interventions and their monitoring and evaluation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parent-related stress of male and female carers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities and carers of children within the general population: a cross-sectional comparison
- Authors:
- PATTON Kiri A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31(1), 2018, pp.51-61.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: Carers of children with intellectual disability show high rates of parent-related stress and are at an increased risk for deleterious physical and mental health. Materials and Methods: This study investigated the relationship between demographic and social characteristics and parenting stress, within two different cross-sectional samples of carers: those who care for an adolescent with an intellectual disability and carers from a population based sample. Participants were 1152 carers from the Household Income and Labour Dynamic in Australia study and 284 carers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities from the Ask study. Results and Conclusions: The results supported previous research suggesting carers of children with intellectual disabilities experience high parent-related stress. The results also support the buffer model of social support, as high social support was related to lower parent-related stress. Self-rated prosperity, financial pressure and relationship status were also related to lower levels of parent-related stress. (Publisher abstract)
Effects of short-term disability awareness training on attitudes of adolescent schoolboys toward persons with a disability
- Authors:
- MOORE Danielle, NETTLEBECK Ted
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 38(3), 2013, pp.223-231.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Schoolboys (N = 156, M age = 13 years) participated in a disability awareness training programme that included guest speakers (athletes from the Paralympics and the Special Olympics), a documentary about people with a disability, a disability simulation activity, and factual information about different disabilities. Method: Participants were allocated to a training program or a control condition. Subsequently, control participants completed the training program. Attitudes toward disability were measured by the Chedoke–McMaster Attitudes Towards Children With Handicaps (CATCH) Scale and the scale from the “Just Like You” disability awareness intervention, before and after training. Results: Training improved attitude scores, and gains were retained at one-month follow-up. Conclusions: Disability awareness training that delivered relevant information by involving guest speakers with a disability, included documentary evidence about the lives of people with a disability, and included interactive discussion, was successful. CATCH and “Just Like You” are useful tools for measuring self-reported attitudes about disability. (Publisher abstract)
A pilot of interventions to improve health care in adolescents with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- LENNOX Nicholas G., REY-CONDE Therese F., FAINT Sonya
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 21(5), September 2008, pp.484-489.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
People with intellectual disability often have poor health which may be improved through better health advocacy and enhanced communication with their general practitioner. To this end, this study examined the use of the Comprehensive Health Assessment Program (CHAP) and the Ask health diary previously developed for adults with intellectual disability and trialled their use in adolescents attending a Special School in Australia. A CHAP health review completed by both carers and General Practitioners was used to collect information about adolescents' health. An Ask health diary was used in school to learn health advocacy and communication skills. Thirty students, their parents and their eight teachers participated in the trial. The CHAP health review resulted in a mean of 5.2 health conditions being found, and 1.4 planned actions by the general practitioner per adolescent. The Ask health diary was highly accepted by the students and teachers. There did not appear to be any increase in communication skills of the students after using the diary in the school for one term. The CHAP health review and Ask health diary have the potential to improve the health of adolescents with intellectual disability.
Institutional and community living in Australia
- Authors:
- GRIFFIN Tim, PARMENTER Trevor R.
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(1), January 1999, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the current trend away from institutional living to community living of people with learning difficulties in Australia. Looks at the challenges for policy-makers and service-funders.
Behaviours in young people with intellectual disability: preliminary findings and implications for injury
- Authors:
- SHERRARD Jennifer, TONGE Bruce J., EINFELD Stewart L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(1), March 1997, pp.39-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study is a preliminary analysis of part of a major longitudinal multidisciplinary programme examining psychopathology in young people with intellectual disability. The aim is to assess potential behavioural risk factors for injury in a representative community sample of children and adolescents aged 4-18 years in 5 health regions in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Results show the prevalence of potential injury risk behaviours to be significantly higher in the study group than for young people representative of the general community. Behavioural injury risk patterns in the study group tend to reflect those seen in younger aged children in the general community. These findings suggest that children and adolescents with intellectual disability display behaviours which may increase their risk for injury.
Gender, sexuality and relationships for young Australian women with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- O'SHEA Amie, FRAWLEY Patsie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(4), 2020, pp.654-675.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Gender has often been overlooked in the lives of people with intellectual disability, resulting in a limited understanding and service response. This is in part due to a lack of knowledge about the way people with intellectual disability negotiate and build a gendered identity. This article presents research undertaken with six young women with an intellectual disability who worked with the first researcher to co-develop some stories from their lives. The article shows how, facilitated by an innovative method which focused on meaningful engagement, the women told stories of richly gendered lives and subjectivities. Their stories showed how gender can be a desired and productive subjectivity, and how consideration of gender can help to identify resistance and agency in their lives. Their stories illustrate how gender is necessary in forming a comprehensive understanding of the lives of women with intellectual disability. (Edited publisher abstract)