<p>Through this project -“Projekt Pedadoggen”- I have tested dog training as a pedagogical resource at Daily activities. The study was made together with a group of persons with intellectual and neuropsychiatric disabilities, whose daily activities consist of running a day-care centre for dogs. Each participator of the project trained a dog towards a specific goal. This goal was individually formulated by each participator from his or her specific interest. The participators chose to set up a show, which was planned and performed by them selves. </p><p>At the end of the project the participators were interviewed about their experiences of taking part on the project. Together with notes from the training, these interviews were the foundation of the hermeneutic influenced analysis. The theoretical outpost touches job satisfaction, work-integrated learning and the role of the pedagogue. </p><p>The main conclusion is that dog training can create good conditions for personal development which favour both the work-integrated learning and the lifelong learning. The role of coaching creates opportunities for personal development, among other things by giving the participators opportunities to plan, to work towards a goal, to read and adjust another individual, to improvise, to learn about exercise psychology, etcetera. The training with dogs creates lots of opportunities for interaction, for examples between the participator and participator, between the participator and the dog, and between the participator and people outside the work place. A positive aspect which was stressed by the participators is their own job satisfaction as well as the job satisfaction of the dog. They also stressed the special friendship which can develop between human and dog.</p>

Through this project -“Projekt Pedadoggen”- I have tested dog training as a pedagogical resource at Daily activities. The study was made together with a group of persons with intellectual and neuropsychiatric disabilities, whose daily activities consist of running a day-care centre for dogs. Each participator of the project trained a dog towards a specific goal. This goal was individually formulated by each participator from his or her specific interest. The participators chose to set up a show, which was planned and performed by them selves. At the end of the project the participators were interviewed about their experiences of taking part on the project. Together with notes from the training, these interviews were the foundation of the hermeneutic influenced analysis. The theoretical outpost touches job satisfaction, work-integrated learning and the role of the pedagogue. The main conclusion is that dog training can create good conditions for personal development which favour both the work-integrated learning and the lifelong learning. The role of coaching creates opportunities for personal development, among other things by giving the participators opportunities to plan, to work towards a goal, to read and adjust another individual, to improvise, to learn about exercise psychology, etcetera. The training with dogs creates lots of opportunities for interaction, for examples between the participator and participator, between the participator and the dog, and between the participator and people outside the work place. A positive aspect which was stressed by the participators is their own job satisfaction as well as the job satisfaction of the dog. They also stressed the special friendship which can develop between human and dog.

The purpose of this study was to examine two medium-sized municipalities are working to people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to go from daily activities to a paid employment in the regular labor. Work is seen as a civil right and is a measure of participa-tion in society. The Swedish government believes that the work must be available to all that includes people with intellectual disabilities. Even so, daily activities, the contribution of LSS is increases the most. The daily activities will offer incentives, development, and community and shall contribute to people get access to work or studies. I conducted five interviews based on an interview guide with managers and consultants whose field of work is daily activities with a focus on labor-oriented jobs with an individu-al investment. The areas identified during the study and who were important in the work for a wage em-ployment were: preparation for work, business contacts and step into paid work. The anal-ysis is based from the perspectives of: inclusion-exclusion and citizenship. The conclusion was that the labor-oriented works with individual placement are an alternative for those who want and have the ability to be in a workplace. The transition to paid work, however, was not common. Factors that influenced this were: that companies do not have the finan-cial means, the knowledge of providing support from employment services and lack of cooperation between different agencies, but also an uncertainty factor of the individuals themselves Key words: LSS, daily activities, work, performing mental Disabilities

The central part in all public health work is health promotion and disease preventing actions among the population. Since all public health work includes the whole population, the work has to embrace disabled people as well. Within the disability policies, participation and equality are important goals, which illustrate the importance of a job. In previous studies the positive effects of animal have been detected among persons with disabilities, by better balance, better mobility, larger social network, new knowledge and most of all happiness. The aim of this study was to investigate how people with disabilities experience their health when they are working with animal husbandry at daily activities. The study was based on a project which started in Örkelljunga in January 2012. The purpose was to help the persons in the project to have a more active day at their daily activity. The survey was conducted with interviews as a qualitative method, in which six participants with disabilities where interviewed. The result showed that the participants felt that their daily activity was more meaningful since they had started working with animals and they showed joy while performing their tasks. Most importantly they felt better, where happier and more alert. The conclusion of the study showed that working with animals on daily activities could have a health promotion effect on the participant’s well-being and development. / Den centrala delen i allt folkhälsoarbete är hälsofrämjande och sjukdomsförebyggandesatsningar bland befolkningen. Då folkhälsoarbetet gäller hela befolkningen borde arbetetäven ha ett funktionsnedsättningsperspektiv. Inom handikappolitiken är delaktighet ochjämlikhet viktiga mål, vilket bland annat belyser vikten av att ha ett arbete. I tidigare studierhar de positiva effekterna av djur påvisats hos personer med funktionsnedsättning, blandannat genom bättre balans, bättre rörelseförmåga, större socialt nätverk, utveckling av nyakunskaper och framför allt glädje. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka hurpersoner med funktionsnedsättning upplever sin hälsa vid arbete med djurskötsel på dagligverksamhet. Studien har sin utgångspunkt i ett projekt som startade i Örkelljunga kommun ijanuari 2012. Undersökningen genomfördes med intervjuer som kvalitativ metod, där sex avdeltagarna med funktionsnedsättning intervjuades. Resultatet visade att deltagarna upplevdesin dagliga verksamhet som betydligt mer meningsfull sedan de börjat arbeta med djur. De sersina arbetsuppgifter som betydelsefulla, de visar en glädje i att vilja utföra dem och lära signya saker. Framför allt upplever deltagarna stor skillnad i sitt psykiska välmående, de mårbättre, de känner sig gladare och piggare. Sammanfattningsvis visade studien att arbetet meddjur på daglig verksamhet kan ha en hälsofrämjande inverkan på deltagarnas välmående ochutveckling.

Aim: The aim of the thesis was to investigate the impact of gaze-based assistive technology on daily activities in children with severe physical impairments and without speech. The objectives were to develop and pilot a gaze-based assistive technology intervention (GAT intervention) at home and in school for these children and to understand its impact on daily activities as experienced by their parents. Methods: Study I was a pilot study in which the basic components that were developed for the intervention were evaluated for students with physical impairments. The study aimed at improving the use of computers as assistive technology (AT) in school. Based on the findings in Study I, the GAT intervention was developed. The GAT intervention aimed at implementing gaze-based AT in daily activities. It consisted of two parts; having access to gaze-based AT and having access to services from a multi professional communication team during nine to ten months. Studies II-IV concerned gazebased AT for children with severe physical impairments without speech who participated in the GAT intervention. The participants were ten children (ages 1-15) (Studies II, III), and their parents (Study IV). Studies II and III had longitudinal designs and children were followed during 15-20 months with repeated measurements before, after and at follow-up. In Study II children’s repertoire of computer activities, extent of use, and goal attainment with gaze-based AT was evaluated, as well as parents’ satisfaction with the AT and with services. In Study III children’s eye gaze performance when using gaze-based AT was examined. In Study IV, parents were interviewed twice with the aim of  exploring their experiences of children’s gaze-based AT use in daily life. In Study IV a hermeneutical approach was used. Results: The findings of Study I showed that the basic components of intervention improved the use of computers in school. Study II showed an increased repertoire of computer activities with the gazebased AT, maintained use in daily activities for all at follow up, and that all children attained goals for gaze-based AT use in daily activities. Parents were satisfied with the gaze-based AT, and with the services in the GAT intervention. In study III, nine children improved in eye gaze performance over time when using the gaze-based AT in daily activities. Study IV revealed that children’s gaze-based AT usage in daily activities made a difference to parents since the children demonstrated agency, and showed their personality and competencies by using gaze-based AT, and for the parents this opened up infinite possibilities for the child to do and learn things. Overall, children’s gaze-based AT usage provided parents with hope of a future in which their children could develop and have influence in life. Conclusions: This thesis shows that these children with severe physical impairments and without speech acquired sufficient gaze control skills to use gaze-based AT for daily activities in the home and at school. The gaze-based AT had a positive impact on performing activities, for example, play activities and communication- and interaction-related activities. For the parents, children’s gaze-based AT usage made a difference since it shaped a hope of a better future for their children, where they can develop and gain influence in their future life. Furthermore, the children continued to perform daily activities with gaze-based AT over time. This finding suggests that key persons were provided with sufficient knowledge and skills to support children in maintained use of gaze-based AT after withdrawal of the services provided in the GAT intervention.

Psichikos ligos tampa vis didesne viso pasaulio našta tiek finansiškai, tiek žmogiškąja prasme. Carter, Goland (2002) teigia, kad aštuoniasdešimt procentų žmonių, sergančių sunkiomis psichikos ligomis nedirba, nors reikiamai pagydžius, daugelis jų galėtų dirbti. Žmonės, sergantys psichikos ligomis, praranda kasdieninės veiklos įgūdžius, praranda sugebėjimą spręsti savo socialines problemas, praranda sugebėjimą rūpintis asmens higiena, tvarkyti savo buitį. Neįgaliuosius kankina bejėgiškumas ir neviltis, nes jie negali valdyti savo gyvenimo. Dėl šių priežasčių yra svarbu padėti neįgaliesiems ugdyti kasdieninės veiklos įgūdžius, kad jie galėtų gyventi produktyvų ir pilnavertį gyvenimą savo pasirinktoje aplinkoje. Tyrimo problema: kokia yra Didvyžių pensionato darbuotojų nuomonė apie asmenų su psichine negalia kasdienės veiklos įgūdžių ugdymą įtakojančius veiksnius bei neįgaliųjų savarankiškumą? Tyrimo objektas: Didvyžių pensionato darbuotojų nuomonė apie asmenų su psichine negalia kasdienės veiklos įgūdžių ugdymą įtakojančius veiksnius, neįgaliųjų savarankiškumą. Tyrimo tikslas: tirti Didvyžių pensionato darbuotojų nuomonę apie asmenų su psichine negalia kasdienės veiklos įgūdžių ugdymą įtakojančius veiksnius bei neįgaliųjų savarankiškumą. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Apibūdinti kasdienės veiklos įgūdžių ugdymą kaip galimybę asmeniui su psichine negalia sugrįžti į pilnavertį gyvenimą. 2. Tirti bei aprašyti Didvyžių pensionato darbuotojų nuomonę apie kasdienės veiklos įgūdžių lygį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Increasing number of mentally ill is a massive problem. Mentally ill persons lose everyday living skills, become unable to deal with their social problems, lose the skills of personal hygiene, household doing. That is why it is so important to help the disabled to acquire everyday living skills and live efficient and full value life in the environment chosen by them. Study subject: Everyday living skills in mentally ill residing at Didvyžiai Board and Care Home, evaluation thereof. Study goal: To evaluate everyday living skills in mentally ill residing at Didvyžiai Board and Care Home, study the respondents’ opinion about the possibility to teach skills and related problems. Study tasks: 1. To evaluate everyday living skills in persons residing at Didvyžiai Board and Care Home. 2. To analyse the opinion of Didvyžiai Board and Care Home staff about the everyday living skills. 3. To describe the factors (reasons) influencing everyday living skills in mentally ill residing at Didvyžiai Board and Care Home as perceived by the respondents. Study methods employed for the realisation of the study goal and tasks: analysis of scientific literature, questionnaires, and statistical analysis. Scientific literature has been analysed with the view to the concept of everyday living skills training and the factors effecting skills acquisition in the mentally ill. In order to evaluate everyday living skills of Didvyžiai Board and Care Home residents, as well as to study the respondents’... [to full text]

Bakgrund: Valet av daglig verksamhet som undersökningsområde gjordes då vi ville undersöka hur personer med funktionsnedsättning upplever sin arbetssituation. Empowerment som perspektiv kändes passande i studien då många av de teoretiska begrepp vi ville använda oss av förekommer inom empowerment. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån ett empowermentperspektiv beskriva och analysera hur deltagare upplever och skapar mening inom daglig verksamhet. Metod: Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär med semistrukturerade intervjuer där empirin grundar sig på fem transkriberade intervjuer. De personer som intervjuats har valts ut utifrån två kriterier, att de kunde uttrycka sig muntligt samt beviljats och arbetar inom daglig verksamhet enligt LSS (1993:387). För att få svar på våra intervjufrågor utarbetades en intervjuguide. Empirin analyserades utifrån studiens tre teoretiska begrepp tillhörighet, meningsfullhet och makt. Intervjuanalys med fokus på meningen har används som omfattar meningskodning. Resultat: Resultatet visar att samtliga deltagare trivs med sin arbetssituation, genom att dem uttrycker att det är viktigt för dem att ha något att göra om dagarna samt att samspela med andra. Fortsättningsvis visar resultatet på att deltagarna upplever acceptans på sitt arbete, men de upplever inte att deras arbete är accepterat i samhället. Det framkommer i resultatet att maktrelationen mellan personalen och deltagarna är relativt likställd men att deltagarna är medvetna om att personalen har största ansvaret och har på så sätt makten. / Background: The choice of daily activities as a study area was made because we wanted to investigate how people with disabilities experience their work situation. An empowerment perspective seemed appropriate in this study because many of the theoretical concepts we wanted to use occurs within empowerment. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze how participants experience and create meaning in daily activities based on an empowerment perspective. Method: The study is of a qualitative nature with semi-structured interviews where the empiricism is based on five transcribed interviews. The persons interviewed have been selected on the basic of two criteria, that they could express themselves verbally and that they was granted and worked within daily activity according to LSS (1993:387). To get our interview questions answered an interview guide was composed. The empiricism was analyzed on the basis of the studies three theories belonging, meaningfulness and power. Interview analysis with focus on sentences has been used that includes sentence coding. Result: The result shows that all participants are content with their work situation, they express that it is important for them to have something to occupy their day and to interact with others, but they don't experience that their work is accepted in society. It is made clear from the result of the study that the power relation between the staff and participants are relatively equal but that the participants are conscious of the fact that the staff has the greater responsibility and in that way also the greater power.

Despite the vast amount of work and the huge database for Roman Britain, the people of the province remain very difficult to discern. There are many reasons for this, but one is that we have not yet learned to look behind the disjecta membra of archaeology in order to understand the structure and nature of society, and how the Roman Conquest may have impacted upon it. The language of sociology offers scope for thought, especially when combined with examples drawn from historically documented societies in later periods. Whilst models drawn from the classical world are important, attention also needs to be focused on the local, and on the factors that determined the shape of people's lives and influenced their daily activities. Not all these are archaeologically detectable; nevertheless an appreciation of their existence is an important pre-requisite in attempting explanations of patterns in the data.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:13:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LucianaAR.pdf: 615166 bytes, checksum: 1fd6bc61d7bc8102afa81b94d8af8d17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-14 / The aim of this study was to evaluate the pain influence regarding location, intensity and duration over functional capacity in institutionalized elderly (Fundacao Leur Brito). This is a descriptive exploratory study with a transversal design and quantitative approach. The population of the study was composed of 60 elderly, being 50% males with 60 years-old minimum age and 104 years-old maximum age, with mean age 77,6 (?}11,64) years-old. Data was collected by a structured query formulary divided in four parts: 1) Social, health and demographic characterization; 2) Pain related aspects (time and location); 3) Pain evaluation by numeric scale and 4) Functional capacity measured by Barthel Index. It was observed after evaluation by Squared-chi test (x2) statistical significant difference between pain presence and Barthel Index activities: bath (pvalue=0,015), dressing (p-value= 0,041), intimal hygiene transference (p-value=0,001), chair and bed transference (p-value=0,032), walking (p-value=0,010) and go upstairs (p-value=0,008). It was also observed statistical difference between total Barthel score (dependent/independent) and pain presence, p-value<0, 000. Through data obtained by this study, a multiprofessional approach is necessary to proper pain control and maintenance and/or regain of functional capacity, leading to an increase in life quality with more independence and autonomy to elderly / Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar a influencia da dor quanto a localizacao, intensidade e duracao na capacidade funcional de idosos institucionalizados. Trata-se de um estudo de carater exploratorio descritivo com delineamento transversal e abordagem quantitativa. O local de estudo foi a Fundacao Leur Brito, sendo a amostra constituida por 60 idosos, desse total, 50% eram do sexo masculino, sendo a idade minima de 60 anos, maxima de 104 e media de 77,6 (?}11,64) anos. O instrumento de pesquisa utilizado para a coleta de dado foi um formulario estruturado de entrevista constituido de quatro partes: 1) Caracterizacao sociodemografica e de saude; 2) Aspectos relacionados a dor (tempo e localizacao); 3) Avaliacao da dor pela Escala Numerica e 4) Capacidade funcional medida pelo Indice de Barthel. Com a aplicacao do Teste Qui-quadrado (x2) verificou-se diferenca estatistica entre presenca de dor e as atividades do indice de Barthel: banho (p-valor=0,015), vestir-se (p-valor= 0,041), transferencia para higiene intima (p-valor=0,001), transferencia cama e cadeira (pvalor= 0,032), deambulacao (p-valor=0,010) e subir escadas (p-valor=0,008). Sendo ainda encontrada diferenca estatistica entre a pontuacao total de Barthel dependente/independente) e presenca de dor, p-valor<0, 000. Mediante ao exposto pelos dados deste estudo faz-se necessario uma atuacao multidisciplinar no controle adequado da dor e manutencao e/ou recuperacao da capacidade funcional, capaz de assegurar uma melhor qualidade de vida, com uma maior independencia e autonomia para os idosos

Orientador: Paulo Ferreira de Araujo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T20:38:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giacomini_MarciaCristinaCarriel_M.pdf: 1083635 bytes, checksum: 24e1b11c9f0780363f1e51f6761ccf09 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Aumenta a cada dia o número de pessoas com deficiência física decorrente de lesões da medula espinhal. A lesão da medula espinhal é uma das mais devastadoras síndromes incapacitantes que acometem o ser humano, e consiste, na alteração da função medular que ocorre devido a um trauma ou doença, podendo provocar inúmeras alterações neuromusculares, esqueléticas, hormonais, metabólicas, sociais e psicológicas no indivíduo lesionado, reduzindo a sua capacidade de participar das atividades diárias vigorosas necessárias para manter um estilo de vida saudável e menos dependente. OBS.: O resumo na integra poderá ser visualizado no link ou texto completo da tese digital / Abstract: Every day the number of people with any physical deficiencies is increasing due to the spinal cord injury. The spinal cord injury is one of the most destructive syndromes that can make the human being incapable, and it consists in the marrow function changing that happens due to a trauma or disease which can cause a great number of changes in the injured person, such as, neuromuscular changes, those of the skeleton, those of the hormones and of the metabolism, and also the social and psychological changes, reducing their capacity of participating in daily physical activities that are necessary to keep a healthy and a less dependent stile of life. Note: the complete abstract is avaiable with the link or full eletronic digital theses or dissertations / Mestrado / Atividade Fisica, Adaptação e Saude / Mestre em Educação Física