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Roy Deveau; Georgina Rickard – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: As practice leaders, frontline managers observe staff working, provide feedback and use organisational structures to improve staff skills and focus on service-user quality of life. This qualitative study explored the experiences and barriers for frontline managers providing practice leadership to staff in community services for adults…
Descriptors: Barriers, Leadership Training, Community Services, Adults
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Cayleigh Dunworth; Dearbhaile Mahon; Jenny McSharry; Jennifer Holloway; Helena Lydon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
In Ireland, the provision of behavior support services has developed following the introduction of Health Information and Quality Authority (2013) standards and the regulation of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) under the Health Act (2007). The purpose of this study was to explore what factors facilitate and act as barriers to implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Positive Behavior Supports, Barriers, Counselor Attitudes
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Deb, Shoumitro; Limbu, Bharati; Nancarrow, Tom; Gerrard, David; Shankar, Rohit – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Overprescribing of off-licence psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotics, for challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities without a psychiatric disorder is a significant public health concern. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service England launched an initiative in 2016, 'STopping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychiatry, Experience, Adults
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Esther H. Bisschops; J. Clasien de Schipper; Zina Salhi; Petri J.C.M. Embregts; Carlo Schuengel – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: Intellectual disability organisations in the Netherlands are seeking to improve clients' quality of care by implementing methods that reduce involuntary care. This study described insights gained from sharing tacit and experiential implementation knowledge in Communities of Practice (CoP). Method: In a participatory research, managers,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, Caregiver Role
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Heslop, Pauline; Byrne, Victoria; Calkin, Rachel; Gielnik, Kamila; Huxor, Avon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
In England, the national mortality review programme for people with intellectual disabilities, the LeDeR programme, was established in 2015. The programme supports local areas to review the deaths of all people with intellectual disabilities aged 4 years and over. Each death has an initial review; if indicated, a full multi-agency review takes…
Descriptors: Mortality Rate, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Health Services
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Gabrielle T. Lee; Xiaoyi Hu; Zhuojin Yu; Xiumei Hu; Nicole Luke – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2025
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) implemented by special education teachers in a school setting in China. Feasibility was evaluated by procedural fidelity of teacher implementation and a social validity questionnaire. Effectiveness was measured by the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Wadley, C.; Stagnitti, K. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This paper aims to explore the impacts of a Learn to Play programme in specialist schools for children with multiple developmental issues. Specialist schools are schools dedicated to children with IQs below 70 and who may also have other developmental issues. The Learn to Play programme focusses on facilitating children's enjoyment and ability to…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Experience, Play, Program Implementation
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Yurrebaso Atutxa, Garazi; Martínez-Rueda, Natxo; Galarreta Lasa, Javier – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
Background: Although studies have long identified the practices that must be included in transition programmes to improve the outcomes for young people with intellectual disabilities when becoming adults, less information is available regarding the degree to which those best practices are being developed and/or implemented. Materials and methods:…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Best Practices, Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Capio, Catherine M.; Eguia, Kathlynne F. – SAGE Open, 2021
Children with intellectual disability (ID) tend to have difficulty with mastering fundamental movement skills, associated with cognitive deficits that impair skill acquisition. In this case study, motor learning evidence was transformed into an object control skills training program for children with ID in a school context. An implementation…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills, Children, Intellectual Disability
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Edwards, Nicole; King, Julie; Williams, Karen; Hair, Sara – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Psychotropic medication is widely prescribed to treat mental illness. However, it is controversial when used as a chemical restraint (CR) to manage challenging behaviours (CBs) of adults with intellectual disability (ID). CR has potentially negative consequences and affects human rights. Method: Qualitative research conducted between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Therapy, Behavior Problems, Adults
Burke, Christine; Macdonald, Millie; Dodd, Karen; Satinsky, Emily; Kousoulis, Antonis – Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, 2018
This report highlights how more that a million of people with learning disabilities have become invisible in national dementia policy. People with a learning disability are three times more likely to develop dementia than the rest of the population. But a review of current government strategy has revealed that their needs are barely mentioned. It…
Descriptors: Dementia, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Developmental Disabilities
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Lloyd, Jan; Moni, Karen; Cuskelly, Monica; Jobling, Anne – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: This article reports research about the experiences of families with an adult child with intellectual disability as they engaged in the NDIS planning processes in Australia. Method: Parents of 19 adults with intellectual disability responded to a number of closed and Likert-type items and provided comments. Responses are reported using…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Adults, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Bould, Emma; Beadle-Brown, Julie; Bigby, Christine; Iacono, Teresa – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Objectives: Research shows practice leadership to be a factor in the successful implementation of active support. The aim of the study was to explore differences in staff practice, associated with the presence of a practice leader in a shared supported accommodation service. Methods: Quality of support and engagement for 189 service users with…
Descriptors: Leadership, Intellectual Disability, Accessibility (for Disabled), Foreign Countries
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Bigby, Christine – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Dedifferentiated policy treats adults with intellectual disabilities as part of the larger group of people with disabilities. The implications of the dedifferentiated National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for adults with intellectual disabilities are explored. Methods: Analysis of peer reviewed and grey literature between 2014…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Public Policy, Intellectual Disability, Adults
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Le Van, Laura; Crino, Rocco; Corneille, Samantha – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: This study examined whether Motivational Interviewing (MI) follow-up calls improved the extent to which a specific therapeutic technique (Key Word Sign) presented in training was retained and implemented by staff supporting people with an intellectual disability.Method: Thirty-eight residential support workers who attended Key Word…
Descriptors: Interviews, Motivation, Training, Persistence
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