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The Development and Initial Validation of a Short, Self-Report Measure on Social Inclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities-A Transnational …
2021
Sport has been promoted as a means of increasing the social inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities. Suitable tools for evaluating this claim are not readily available. The aim of this study was to develop a self-report tool for use by people with intellectual disabilities regarding the social inclusion they experience in sport and in the community. A three-phase process was used. In the first phase an item bank of questionnaire items was created and field-tested with 111 participants. Initial factor analysis identified 42 items which were further evaluated in Phase 2 with 941 participants from six European countries. Construct validity was established first through Exploratory …
Special education without teaching assistants? : The development process for students with autism
2020
Many children may need the help of another person to attend school. It is common for children with disabilities to receive help from a teaching assistant at school. Assistants are provided in many countries as a legal right and are often publicly funded. It is also widely assumed that having teaching assistants in the class is an effective and cost-efficient way to support students with disabilities. In this study, the research task was to monitor and document the development process carried out by the teacher, with the aim of making visible the development of a more dynamic classroom interaction. The focus in this development process was the teacher’s idea of minimizing the conta…
Effect of childhood developmental coordination disorder on adulthood physical activity; Arvo Ylppö longitudinal study
2022
Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science In Sports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Individuals at risk of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) have low levels of physical activity in childhood due to impaired motor competence; however, physical activity levels in adulthood have not been established. This study sought to determine the impact of DCD risk on physical activity levels in adults using accelerometry measurement. Participants (n = 656) from the Arvo Ylppö Longitudinal Study cohort had their motor competence assessed at the age of five years, and their physical activity quantified via device assessment at the age of 25 years. Betwe…
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics
2022
This article provides insights from an empirical study on the meaning of social inclusion for Finnish athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID) who participate in Special Olympics (SO). A further objective was to explore the athletes’ perceptions of the role SO has played in their lives regarding their personal experiences of social inclusion. Data were transcripts of five focus group interviews carried out with a total of 31 participants during the last SO World Winter Games in 2017. The content was analysed with the aim of identifying the main themes in the athletes’ conversations about social inclusion. Three main themes were identified: inclusion as a contrast to past discrimination;…
Age and sex-based differences in functional strength of adults participating in Special Olympics
2022
Muscular strength is a critical component of physical health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine age- and sex-based differences in functional strength and rates of referral for education in a large international sample of Special Olympics athletes. A total of 30,358 (male = 19,661) adult (20–69 years old) athlete functional strength records were utilized from the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes database. Descriptive statistics were computed for the following tests: timed sit to stand, partial sit-up, grip strength, and seated push-up. Analyses of variance with Fisher-Hayter pairwise comparisons generally supported age-related decreases in strength among both males and fe…
Ageing in place together : older parents and ageing offspring with intellectual disability
2020
AbstractLimited research has been conducted about ageing in place among older parents who co-habit with their ageing offspring with intellectual disability (ID). This study aims to explore which older parents would choose ageing in place together with their ageing offspring with ID instead of moving and what factors are associated with this choice. A face-to-face interview was conducted using the ‘housing pathways’ framework with older parents (⩾60 years) co-habiting with their ageing offspring with ID (⩾40 years) from two local authorities in Taiwan. In total, 237 families completed our census survey between June and September 2015. The results showed that 61.6 per cent of the participants…
Musiikillisten aistikokemusten merkitys aistimonivammaisille henkilöille
2008
Heart rate responses during the modified six-minute walk test among Special Olympics athletes
2021
Objective: The construct validity of the modified six-minute walk test (m6MWT) was examined by addressing the following questions: 1) do participants attain a steady state plateau in heart rate (HR) within the range of 110-150 beats per minute? 2) at what percentage of their predicted HR maximum were participants during each minute of the test? Material and Methods: Participants were 36 (male=56%) Special Olympics athletes aged 34.4 years (SD = 12.7). Following familiarization, participants completed the m6MWT while wearing a Polar Team 2 heart rate monitor. Results: By the end of the first minute, average heart rate was 120bpm, and a factorial repeated measures ANOVA revealed that steady s…
Kehitysvammaisten aikuisten kestävyyskunnon taso ja muutos ikääntyessä : kahden kävelytestin vertaaminen
2015
Eveliina Keinonen (2015). Kehitysvammaisten aikuisten kestävyyskunnon taso ja muutos ikääntyessä: Kahden kävelytestin vertaaminen. Liikuntakasvatuksen laitos, Jyväskylän yli-opisto, liikuntapedagogiikan pro gradu –tutkielma, 66 s., 3 liitettä. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tarkastella keski-ikäisten kehitysvammaisten naisten ja miesten kestävyyskunnon tasoa vammattomaan väestöön sekä Suomessa yleisesti käytössä oleviin terveysliikunnan suosituksiin verrattuna. Tarkastelun kohteena oli myös kehitysvammaisten kestävyyskunnossa esiintyvät muutokset seitsemän vuoden aikana. Lisäksi tutkimus pyrki selvittämään onko samanaikaisesti suoritettujen UKK-instituutin 2 kilometrin kävelytestin ja Rockport…
Kehitysvammaisten henkilöiden tuettu työ, avotyö ja sosiaalityö lehdistössä : rinnakkaistyömaailma
2017
Kehitysvammaisten henkilöiden omaa ääntä ja kokemusta tulisi tuoda esille sosiaalityötä kehittäessä heidän työelämän tueksi. Median kuvaukset kehitysvammaisen työelämästä voidaan nähdä heijastavan yhteiskunnan asenteita. Tuettu työ tarkoittaa työllistymistä palkkatyösuhteiseen avotyöhön vapaille työmarkkinoille työvalmentajan tuen avulla. Ongelma on, että vaikka on yritetty järjestää kehitysvammaisille henkilöille palkkatyötä, tämä ei olla onnistunut yhteiskunnassa. Vaikka avotyön tulisi mahdollistaa pääsy oikeisiin töihin, todellisuudessa tämä on vain segmentoinut kehitysvammaisten työn avotyömalliksi, josta on vaikea päästä palkkatyöhön. Työ ja päivätoiminta ei ole onnistunut löytämään ni…