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Direct linkBoman, Charlotte; Bernhardsson, Susanne – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Many children with intellectual developmental disorders are insufficiently physically active and do not reach recommendations for physical activity. Pediatric healthcare providers play a key role in addressing these children's needs, including promoting interventions for physical activity. Aim: To explore pediatric healthcare…
Descriptors: Barriers, Affordances, Health Promotion, Physical Activities
Holmberg Bergman, T.; Renhorn, E.; Berg, B.; Lappalainen, P.; Ghaderi, A.; Hirvikoski, T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities report high levels of distress, but systematically evaluated interventions are few. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a novel, manualized Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group intervention ("Navigator ACT") in a sample of 94 parents of children with…
Descriptors: Parents, Children, Disabilities, Group Therapy
Bang, Peter; Strömberg, Maria; Meera, Shoba S.; Igelström, Kajsa – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
The broad autism phenotype (BAP) is a set of characteristics often observed in typically developing people with a genetic load for autism, such as parents of autistic children. The Broad Autism Phenotypic Questionnaire (BAPQ) is a 36-item questionnaire developed to identify the BAP in first-degree relatives of autistic people. We translated the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Disability Identification, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Psychometrics
Download full textKarlsudd, Peter – Education Sciences, 2020
How the Swedish after-school leisure program pedagogy relates to special education is rarely the subject of research. The problematization of the special education concept in the after-school leisure centers will be the starting point of this analysis model. This has been constructed with the aim of investigating how actors in the Swedish…
Descriptors: Special Education, Leisure Education, Leisure Time, After School Programs
Klieve, Sharon; Eadie, Patricia; Graham, Lorraine; Leitão, Suze – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Understanding what is known about the language profiles of children with hearing loss (CHL) is vital so that researchers and teachers can identify the specific complex syntactic structures that CHL may struggle to master. An understanding of which aspects of complex syntax pose difficulties for CHL is necessary to inform the kind of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Hearing Impairments, Syntax, Language Acquisition
Lundbäck, Birgitta; Fälth, Linda – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2019
In Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries children are offered a curricular based combination of care and teaching before and after compulsory school hours. These leisure time centers, so-called "fritidshem," are offered to children aged between 6 and 12 whose parents' study or work, as well as to children that require special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Children, Disabilities
Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, 2023
Each year, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) releases a list of scientific advances that represent significant progress in the field of autism research. The "2021 Summary of Advances" provides short, plain language summaries of the top research breakthroughs selected by the IACC from a pool of research articles…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research, Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
Reuterskiöld, Christina; Hallin, Anna Eva; Nair, Vishnu K. K.; Hansson, Kristina – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of the research on morpho-syntactic challenges in Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD), compared with typically developing (TD) children learning Swedish as their first and second language (L1/L2). Children with DLD show vulnerabilities with verb finiteness, the possessive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Isaksson, Charlotta; Björquist, Elisabet – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
The use of smartphones and tablet devices in activities is believed to have great potential for enhancing the participation of people with intellectual disabilities. However, these technologies, in themselves, do not contribute to participation. What matters is how they are used. Employing the concept of domestication and insights gained from…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Participation
Ring, M.; Kristén, L.; Klingvall-Arvidsson, B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Many understandings about norms and norm criticism are based on imaginations of inclusion and exclusion as if values about right and wrong, and acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors belong to a world of relations that can be separated from embodied and physical things and practices. This preparatory study is based on interviews conducted with…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Inclusion, Children, Disabilities
Nowak, Herawati I.; Broberg, Malin; Starke, Mikaela – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
A random sample of parents of children with disabilities (n = 144) from three Swedish municipalities participated in a structured telephone interview including seven questions on child participation and 156 professionals from the same municipalities completed a web-based survey including six questions on child participation. The aim of the study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Participative Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
Sjögreen, Lotta; Mårtensson, Åsa; Ekström, Anne-Berit – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a slowly progressive multi-systemic disease with an autosomal-dominant inheritance caused by a mutation on chromosome 19 (19q13.3). Aims: To explore speech characteristics in a group of individuals with the congenital and childhood-onset forms of DM1 in terms of intelligibility, speech-sound…
Descriptors: Diseases, Muscular Strength, Speech Impairments, Video Technology
Viljoen, Marisa; Mahdi, Soheil; Griessel, David; Bölte, Sven; de Vries, Petrus J – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Functional outcomes in autism spectrum disorder can be highly variable given the heterogeneous nature of autism spectrum disorder and its interaction with environmental factors. We set out to compare parent/caregiver perceptions of functioning in two divergent countries that participated in the International Classification of Functioning…
Descriptors: Parents, Caregivers, Parent Attitudes, Autism
Fernqvist, Stina – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
People with cognitive difficulties often have scarce economic resources, and parents with cognitive difficulties are no exception. In this article, parents' experiences are put forth and discussed, for example, how does economic hardship affect family life? How do the parents experience support, what kind of strain does the scarce economy put on…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Economically Disadvantaged, Experience
Mahdi, Soheil; Albertowski, Katja; Almodayfer, Omar; Arsenopoulou, Vaia; Carucci, Sara; Dias, José Carlos; Khalil, Mohammad; Knüppel, Ane; Langmann, Anika; Lauritsen, Marlene Briciet; da Cunha, Graccielle Rodrigues; Uchiyama, Tokio; Wolff, Nicole; Selb, Melissa; Granlund, Mats; de Vries, Petrus J.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Bölte, Sven – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
This is the fourth international preparatory study designed to develop International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, and Children and Youth version, ICF-CY) Core Sets for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Examine functioning of individuals diagnosed with ASD as documented by the ICF-CY in a variety of clinical settings. A…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Models
