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Understanding Situational Disabilities and Situational Awareness in Disasters
2019
In this paper, a scenario-based approach augmented with personas typically used in universal design and interactive design domains is used to illustrate the occurrence of situational disabilities in emergency situations, and to show how environmental factors can trigger these situational disabilities. With the help of personas representing selected archetypical characteristics and roles, the scenarios are further examined to show how these situational disabilities can affect the situational awareness of different stakeholders, not only in the command and control centers, but also first responders in the field as well as affected members of the public. This approach provides a better underst…
Media use during adolescence: the recommendations of the Italian Pediatric Society
2019
Abstract Background The use of media device, such as smartphone and tablet, is currently increasing, especially among the youngest. Adolescents spend more and more time with their smartphones consulting social media, mainly Facebook, Instagram and Twitter because. Adolescents often feel the necessity to use a media device as a means to construct a social identity and express themselves. For some children, smartphone ownership starts even sooner as young as 7 yrs, according to internet safety experts. Material and methods We analyzed the evidence on media use and its consequences in adolescence. Results In literature, smartphones and tablets use may negatively influences the psychophysical d…
Sociālās uzņēmējdarbības loma cilvēku ar invaliditāti nodarbinātības veicināšanā Latvijā
2022
Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Sociālās uzņēmējdarbības loma cilvēku ar invaliditāti nodarbinātības veicināšanā Latvijā”. Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, kāda ir sociālās uzņēmējdarbības ietekme uz cilvēku ar invaliditāti nodarbinātību. Lai sasniegtu pētījuma mērķi, kā pētījuma metode tika izvēlēta kvalitatīvā pētījuma metode – daļēji strukturētās intervijas ar sociālajiem uzņēmējiem un cilvēkiem ar invaliditāti, kuri strādā sociālajos uzņēmumos. Kā datu analīzes metode tika izmantota tematiskā analīze. Darbs tika balstīts uz invaliditātes sociālo modeli. Bakalaura darbā tika secināts tas, ka sociālajai uzņēmējdarbībai ir pozitīva ietekme uz cilvēku ar invaliditāti nodarbinātību, jo tā nodrošina c…
HNRNPR Variants that Impair Homeobox Gene Expression Drive Developmental Disorders in Humans
2019
The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (HNRNP) genes code for a set of RNA-binding proteins that function primarily in the spliceosome C complex. Pathogenic variants in these genes can drive neurodegeneration, through a mechanism involving excessive stress-granule formation, or developmental defects, through mechanisms that are not known. Here, we report four unrelated individuals who have truncating or missense variants in the same C-terminal region of hnRNPR and who have multisystem developmental defects including abnormalities of the brain and skeleton, dysmorphic facies, brachydactyly, seizures, and hypoplastic external genitalia. We further identified in the literature a fifth ind…
Revista Fuentes
2022
El actual contexto educativo necesita una intensa alfabetización digital de todo el profesorado, lo que ha requerido una modificación significativa en los perfiles docentes convencionales. En el caso del profesorado especialista en Pedagogía terapéutica que trabaja con alumando con necesidades educativas especiales, la digitalización ha supuesto un desafío. Tales cambios han requerido dotarse de nuevas habilidades para transformar la información en conocimientos, guiar el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje en un entorno novedoso y generar un espacio de inclusión educativa. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar cuáles son los perfiles de los profesionales especialistas en Pedagogía …
Representation of disabilities in Physical Education textbooks image: inclusion or exclusion?
2017
El objetivo de la investigación es mostrar cómo se representan las personas con discapacidad en las imágenes de los libros de texto de Educación Física en la etapa de Educación Primaria. El estudio es de tipo empírico, descriptivo y comparativo entre los libros de texto analizados. La muestra recogió 3836 imágenes de libros de texto publicados en España entre los años 2006 y 2013, bajo la Ley Orgánica de Educación (LOE). La técnica de investigación fue el análisis de contenido a través de un sistema de categorías elaborado ad hoc, previa validación y fiabilidad mediante una prueba piloto, una consulta a expertos/as y una prueba intercodificadores. Para el análisis estadístico se utilizó el …
Mapping child growth failure across low- and middle-income countries
2020
Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally1. Undernourished children are more likely to experience cognitive, physical, and metabolic developmental impairments that can lead to later cardiovascular disease, reduced intellectual ability and school attainment, and reduced economic productivity in adulthood2. Child growth failure (CGF), expressed as stunting, wasting, and underweight in children under five years of age (0–59 months), is a specific subset of undernutrition characterized by insufficient height or weight against age-specific growth reference standards3–5. The prevalence of stunting, wasting, or underweight in children under five is the proport…
Physical activity of university students with disabilities: accomplishment of recommendations and differences by age, sex, disability and weight stat…
2018
Abstract Objectives This article aims to study physical activity and the achievement of World Health Organization physical activity recommendations in university students with disabilities, and to examine differences by sex, age, disability characteristics and weight status. Study design Cross-sectional data from a wider research project conducted at the Spanish universities from Autumn 2016 to Autumn 2017 were analysed. Methods The International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form was administered to 1103 Spanish university students with different disabilities. Nonparametric tests were performed to examine the differences in physical activity based on the interest variables. Results…
The difficulties of adapting university teaching for students with disabilities: an analysis focussed on inclusive guidance
2012
The need for specific attention for the personal, social, academic and professional development of students with disabilities is a challenge that the university is committed to. Although significant progress has been made, promoted by an inclusive educational approach, there are still many difficulties faced by students to intergrate into university education. To advance a deeper understanding of the issues affecting these students, research has been conducted with a sample of 113 students with disabilities from different centers in the University of La Laguna (Spain). The results have highlighted, the lack of guidance and information regarding access to university courses, the need to impl…
Professional thinking in Individual Plan processes
2014
This article explores the kind of critical and reflective thinking taht influences the social and health care professionals in the Individual Plan process. An inter-professional group of six healthcare and social researchers collected the data, which consisted of indepth interviews with 12 service providers who were the clients´ coordinators and one day centre leader. By focusing on reflective thinking in a critical perspective, it is concluded that coordinators are guided by different philosophical and theoretical perspectives in this process; a mixture of reasoning strategies, caring as a relational concept and a mixture of philosophical frameworks. To improve critical thinking in Individ…