Search results for "disability"

Surface acting and exhaustion: The moderating role of eudaimonia

2016

Surface acting (faking emotions) is one of the stressors experienced by contact employees during service interactions with customers, and it has implications for workers' exhaustion. One challenge of research and practice is to identify moderators that help to better understand the positive relationships between surface acting and exhaustion. The present study proposes the two dimensions of eudaimonia beliefs about well-being (self-development and contribution-to-others beliefs) as moderators between surface acting and exhaustion. We performed regression analyses with 817 contact employees working in 118 health-care organizations providing services to people with intellectual disability. Re…

Activity typologies as a design model for the ubiquitous detection of daily routines

2018

Emerging technologies open up new visions and business potential for systems design and development in the areas of wellbeing and health. New technologies enable the detection of human performance and early changes in physical and cognitive functioning, making it possible to monitor an older person’s wellbeing. This kind of technology or service sets significant requirements for design, as design concepts must be able to capture the complexity of people’s daily lives in terms of activities and environments. Technology itself is “blind” unless designers can adapt it to human life. There is thus a distinct need for comprehensive design and development models that generate adequate human requi…

Service quality from the point of view of people with intellectual disability: relationships with its satisfaction and wellbeing

2017

Service quality in centers for individuals with intellectual disability plays an important role in their satisfaction and well-being. However, the perspective of in- dividuals with intellectual disability has been relatively neglected in previous research studies. For this reason, the current study aims to analyze service quality (functional, relational, and tangibles) considering the point of view of individuals with intellectual disability, and its links to satisfaction with the center and subjective well-being. The sample was composed of 786 subjects with intellectual disability who were using different types of centers (day-care services, occupational services, and residential services)…

From service quality in organisations to self-determination at home

2015

Background In our proposed model, family members' perceptions of service quality in organisations improve communication about self-determination. In turn, family perceptions of communication openness have a positive relationship with self-determination attitudes of family members. Finally, these attitudes predict self-determination behaviours of individuals with intellectual disability, as reported by family members. Method We tested this model with a sample of 625 family members (196 using ‘day care services’ and 429 using ‘occupational services’). Results Multi-sample structural equation modelling (SEM) supported the model. Communication and attitudes fully mediated the link from service …

Real Bodies. Donne, disabilità e diritti tra rivendicazioni e riconoscimento

2013

Alla Convenzione Onu sui diritti delle persone con disabilità va il merito, tra gli altri, di avere contribuito in modo decisivo a portare sul piano del diritto internazionale la soggettività delle donne con disabilità, destinatarie di una specifica previsione normativa (art. 6), nonché di numerosi riferimenti che sono espressione di una sensibilità di genere. Questa attenzione ha, chiaramente, ripercussioni giuridiche, laddove vengono rese finalmente visibili le violazioni dei diritti umani sofferte dalle donne con disabilità (segregazione, sterilizzazione forzata, abusi in primis). Non vanno taciuti nemmeno i risvolti sociali, dato che pregiudizi ed invisibilità ancora oggi caratterizzano…

Corpi esibiti, corpi celati, corpi negati

2011

The «male paradigm» is criticized by the feminist theory, because it contributes to create a society, where bodies are placed along a hierarchical scale. At its top there is the able-bodied male, and along it bodies that don’t fit the paradigm, like women’s ones and people with disabilities’ ones. They have a common destiny, because they are both requested to fit the cultural «dominant paradigm» but, however they try, it is impossible for them. They fall in a paradox, because they are - being invisible for the society, but also culturally constrained - forced to search this invisibility, because their body is considered «abject», and they are stigmatized due to them. It is necessary to chal…

Intellectual disabilities and physical education

2012

Naming speed and Effortful and Automatic Inhibition in Children with Arithmetic Learning Disabilities

2009

Abstract We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and non-numerical information in long-term memory and the functioning of automatic and effortful cognitive inhibition processes in children with arithmetical learning disabilities (ALDs). Twelve children with ALDs, of age 9.3 years, and twelve gender–age-matched controls were involved in the study. Rate of access was measured through digit- and letter-naming tasks, automatic cognitive inhibition was measured using a negative priming paradigm, and effortful cognitive inhibition was measured rating intrusion errors in a working memory task. Children with ALDs suffered from a deficit in the …

Training of Attention in Children With Low Arithmetical Achievement

2014

This study focuses on the role of attentional processes in arithmetical skills and examines if training of basic attentive skills may improve also working memory abilities reducing arithmetic difficulties. In order to study the efficacy of attentional treatment in arithmetic achievement and in enhancing working memory abilities a test-treatment-retest quasi experimental design was adopted. The research involved 14 children, attending fourth and fifth grades, with Arithmetical Learning Disabilities (ALD) assigned to experimental and control conditions. The numerical comprehension and calculation processes were assessed using the ABCA battery (Lucangeli, Tressoldi, & Fiore, 1998). Attenti…

The impact of deep dysgraphia on graphemic output buffer disorders

2004

This article describes an investigation into the residual writing skills of a severely dysgraphic patient (DA). We found that they were powerfully influenced by a number of lexical variables (lexicality, frequency, imageability, length and geminates). His error pattern was characterized by semantic, lexical, substitution, deletion errors and fragment responses that preserved the first letter. Thus, DA's written spelling was characterized by both deep dysgraphic and graphemic output buffer effects. It is proposed that this pattern of performance represents a new "putative functional syndrome."