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The purpose of this study is to examine improved life quality indicators of older adults with developmental disabilties who are actively participating in the Senior Facilitation Program, a program designed for seniors with developmental disabilities which allows them to make individual choices about their leisure pursuits.

This study compared verbal and nonverbal residents of Intermediate Care Facilities-Developmental Disabilities-Habilitative type (IFC-DD-H) on self-determination. The residents were compared using an adapted version of the Association for Retarded Citizen's (ARC) Self-determination scale.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Educational Psychology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / For the past two to three decades, there has been a large influx of students with disabilities into institutions of higher education worldwide. In South Africa, in these past three decades, records of intake of students with disabilities were not recorded as services and support of this kind were not institutionalised. Within this transformation process, which involved including previously under-represented groups, institutions of higher learning are currently facing challenges of what kind of educational support to offer to students with disabilities, in order to help them to succeed academically. This study investigated the educational support offered to students with disabilities at the University of Venda (UNIVEN) as experienced by the students themselves. The study, therefore, gives an insider perspective. The study followed a qualitative research approach, and used classroom observations, document analysis and focus group interviews to collect data. Ten students with various disabilities participated in the study. The findings of this study reveal that there are some degrees of support that UNIVEN offers. However, some gaps to meet students educational needs still exist. These gaps include lack of information about the programmes that UNIVEN is offering, physical infra-structure barriers and lack of disability knowledge. This study recommends the establishment of a forum in which students with disabilities can discuss and address their educational needs on campus. Other recommendations include the following: lecturers’ training, disability awareness, the installation of an online interactive portal to increase communication between students and the university, and an online survey measuring lecturers’ attitudes and knowledge. The study suggests that future research could include factors that predict graduation rates among students with disabilities. Key words: Educational support, Disability unit, Medical Model of disability, Social model of disability.

We administered the Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS) and the Questions About Behavioral Function (QABF) to five raters and compared the results with functional analysis outcomes for 12 cases in which agreement was obtained for at least four out of five raters on either anecdotal assessment. The scores for functional categories on the MAS and QABF were ranked by averaging the scores for the raters who agreed on the primary maintaining variable. Functional analysis results were ranked by examining average responding across all conditions. A comparison showed correspondence between the highest category and the highest functional analysis condition for 10 out of 11 cases for the MAS and all 10 cases for the QABF. Correspondence for the category and condition ranked second was found for 2 out of 11 cases for the MAS and 2 out of 10 cases for the QABF. The magnitude of difference between categories on the MAS/QABF did not appear to predict the amount of difference in responding in the corresponding functional analyses.

Tillgänglighet är ett begrepp som kan definieras på flera olika sätt, däribland en definition som kan sammanlänkas till den fysiska miljön. Syftet med uppsatsen är att beskriva hur chefer inom gym i södra Sverige definierar ordet tillgänglighet, beskriva hur yrkesverksamma inom gym i södra Sverige upplever sitt gyms tillgänglighet för medlemmar med fysiska funktionsnedsättningar samt, vad chefer inom gym i södra Sverige upplever att de gör för att förbättra tillgängligheten för medlemmar med fysiska funktionsnedsättningar. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats där fyra olika chefer för fyra olika gym har intervjuats. För att förstå resulteten har teorierna om den sociala modellen samt cripteori använts. Resultatet påvisar att informanterna hade andra associationer till begreppet tillgänglighet än just kopplat till den fysiska miljön. Vidare visar intervjuernas resultat att cheferna upplever att det finns många brister i gymmets fysiska miljö ur ett tillgänglighetsperspektiv och att de flesta av cheferna arbetar för att förbättra tillgängligheten. Slutsatse av uppsatsen belyser att gym inte är en arena som kan sägas vara tillgänglig för alla individer. / Acessibility is a concept that can be defined in several diferent ways, including a definition that can be linked to the physical environment. The purpose of the essay is to describe how managers in gym in southern Sweden define the word accessibility, describe how professionals in gym in southern Sweden experience their gym accessibility for members with physical disabilities and, what managers in gym in southern Sweden feel that they do to improve accessbility for members with physical disabilities. The study has a qualitative approach where four different managers for four different gyms have been interviewd. To understand the results, the theories of the social model and the crypt theory have been used. The results show that the informants had other associations to the concept avaliability than just connected to the physical enviornment. Furthermore, the results of the interviews show that the managers feel that there are many shortcomings in the gym`s physical environment from an accesibility perspective and that most of the managers work to improve accessibility. The conclusion of te essay highlights that the gym is not an arena that can be said to be accessible to all individuals.

Orientador: Lígia Maria Presumido Braccialli / Banca: Rita de Cássia Tibério Araújo / Banca: Manoel Osmar Seabra Júnior / Banca: Adriana Garcia Gonçalves / Banca: Jáima Pinheiro de Oliveira / Resumo: Imaginar aplicativos para dispositivos móveis que contemplem simultaneamente requisitos de grandes áreas do conhecimento como Educação e Saúde, e tenham a Tecnologia Assistiva como elemento de integração que aponta caminhos para aderência a projetos voltados à Educação Especial, representam um grande desafio para a sociedade acadêmica interessada neste assunto. O objetivo da presente pesquisa foi avaliar o aplicativo WebSonora, sob aspectos da ergonomia e da usabilidade, que é executado em dispositivos móveis (celulares e tablets) e interage com a pessoa com deficiência visual pelo tato e por comandos de voz. O aplicativo foi projetado inicialmente para ser utilizado sob a plataforma Android e o acesso ao mesmo é feito por meio de comandos hápticos e sonoros que levam o usuário a interagir com três vertentes distintas: a) uma enciclopédia colaborativa que possibilita a pesquisa de termos e artigos desejados; b) uma rede de sites sonoros que possibilita a publicação e a pesquisa de conteúdo exclusivo administrado pelos usuários da aplicação; c) acesso à uma rede social que permite ao usuário a realização de postagens e recepção das mensagens por áudio. A pesquisa contou com a participação de dez pessoas cegas, sendo três pessoas com deficiência visual congênita e sete pessoas com deficiência visual adquirida. Para alcançar o objetivo proposto, foram realizados três estudos. O primeiro deles intitulado: "Análise de percurso de tarefas do aplicativo realizado pelas pessoas com... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Thinking about APPS for mobile gadgets that includes simultaneously requirements of important areas of knowledge such as Education and Health and also have Assistive Technology as an element of integration that suggest ways to adherence to projects aimed to Special Education, represent a profound challenge to the academy society interested in that issue. The aim of this present research was to evaluate the APP WebSonora under aspects of ergonomy and the usability that are performed in mobile gadgets (cell phones and tablets) and interact with the vision impaired person by touch and by voice command. The APP was initially designed to be used under the Android platform and its access is done by touch and sound commands that take the user to interact with three distinct aspects: a) a collaborative encyclopedia that enables the research of terms and articles searched; b) a network of sound sites that enables the publishing and researching of the exclusive content managed by the APP user; c) access to a network the allows the user to perform postages and receive messages by audio. The research had the participation of ten blind people, three who were congenital vision impaired and seven people who were acquired vision impaired. To achieve the suggested objective, three studies were carried. The first one called " Route Analyses of the Task Paths of the APP performed by the visual impaired people based in the Think Aloud method", it raised information about the difficulties found ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

The purpose of this work is to examine the nature or form of disability rights, and whether the African regional human rights system adequately protects them. In other words, the study tries to understand whether the current appalling status of people living with disabilities can be blamed on normative paucity of the African human rights system. The author will therefore comb the African human rights instruments to determine this, and based on the findings, will assess the propriety or otherwise of adopting a disability specific instrument for the continent and recommend accordingly. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2007. / A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Christine Dowuona-Hammond Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon Accra. / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ / Centre for Human Rights / LLM