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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Disability support"”.
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Health and work : how do residential disability support workers view their work?
… research explored the ways in which residential disability support workers view their work, their work environment and conditions, their needs as workers, and how their work conditions influence quality of care. Sixteen people took part in the research, including 10 residential disability support …
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Work Stress, Meaning, And Values: A Study Of Intellectual Disability Support Staff
… in Life test - Short Form (PIL-SF), and the Support Staff Values Questionnaire-Intellectual Disability (SSVQ-ID). Coefficient alphas for the measures used ranged from .73 to .94. The sample reported high levels of meaning and values consistent with previous studies. Covariates for the …
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An Exploration of How Disability Support Services Are Evaluated in Select Community Colleges
… qualitative multi-site study was to explore how disability support service programs are evaluated in select Illinois community colleges through the use of the CIPP (context, input, process, and product) program evaluation framework. Stufflebeam’s (1969) CIPP model of program evaluation was …
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A nationwide survey of disability support personnel regarding transition and services for postsecondary students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… analyze the perceptions (through survey data) of Disability Support Services (DSS) personnel regarding the transition process for students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) from secondary to postsecondary institutions. Participants from 408 postsecondary institutions completed …
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Computer mediated communication and disability support: addressing barriers to study for undergraduate distance learners with long-term health problems
… a need for better interactive communication with support agencies. The student perspective is explored in depth. The essential finding is that the adoption of an Autonomy approach when using CMC for access to services on a 'Virtual Campus' can have beneficial effects and begin to break down the …
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Mental Health and Intellectual Disability: The Experiences of Disability Support Workers in Relation to the Mental Health Needs of Clients
… their family members are turning to intellectual disability services for assistance with issues of mental health regardless of the fact that employees do not receive specialized training in this area. Research indicates that intellectual disability service providers play an important role in the …
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A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness and Feasibility of a Brief, Online, and Self-Guided Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Support Staff
… intervention for intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) support staff to reduce burnout and psychological distress and increase psychological flexibility and work performance. A randomized waitlist control trial was implemented with an intervention group (n=5) and waitlist control group …
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Student Disability Services Within The 28 Florida Community Colleges
… was to investigate perceptions and activities of disability support program administrators in Florida community colleges regarding program administration and evaluation. The study further sought to document if any relationships existed between selected organizational and staffing characteristics …
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Development of the Postsecondary Student Survey of Disability-Related Stigma (SSDRS)
… were reporting significant discrimination and disability stigma effects. Until recently, however, no formal instruments had been developed specifically to measure disability stigma in college students. The purpose of this study was to develop the Postsecondary Student Survey of …
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Accommodating Students with Disabilities: A Case Study of Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors at a Community College
… and practice in the area of community college support systems for students with disabilities has been limited. This dissertation reports the findings from a small-scale qualitative case study to discover the challenges faculty face in accommodating students with disabilities at a large, …
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“I’m the only one that knows what I can and can’t do.”: Shaping identities through disability accommodation discussions
… people with disabilities have when disclosing disability in the workplace for accommodations and how those experiences influenced identity formation. Utilizing a feminist disability theory framework, this project involved using semi-structured interviews with 13 people with cognitive and …
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Predictors of coping success in children with functional abdominal pain: the influence of executive function and attention regulation
… in coping and its effect on pain and functional disability in 44 children and adolescents with functional abdominal pain. Participants and their caregivers completed measures of executive function, attention regulation, coping, and several outcome variables including pain, functional disability, …
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Not All Disability Is Created Equal: A Comparative Historiography Of Workers' Compensation And Disability Benefits In Ontario, Canada
… workers are relatively neglected in Critical Disability Studies (CDS). A further observation is that CDS tends to avoid a class analysis of disability politics in favour of identitarian approaches. This research focuses on income security. Through a Marxist critical policy historiography, I …
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Examining the Role of Biopsychosocial Factors in Disability Among Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
… quality of life. Related to quality of life is disability, which is an under-researched topic in the IBD literature. Models theorize that disability is the result of a disease and its related impairments, limitations, and restrictions it causes to an individual and their life. Environmental and …
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Linking Disability and Intercultural Studies: the adaptation journey of the visually impaired migrant in Ireland
… migrants are simultaneously adapting to their disability and a new cultural environment while living in Ireland. In so doing this study aims to link the two academic fields of Intercultural Studies and Disability Studies and theoretical underpinnings for this study are drawn and woven together …
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The family-support needs of Zimbabwean asylum-seeking families living with their disabled children in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
… - seeking families living with a child with disability experience poverty to a greater degree than those living without one. In the South African context, Zimbabwean asylum - seeking families that are driven into the country by poverty, lack of health facilities for their disabled children …
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Cisgender Women Student Veterans' Lived Experiences Inside the College Classroom
… sub-themes of "veteran-friendly" campus, disability support services, "you don't look like a veteran," and liberal environment. Regarding having a "veteran-friendly" campus, participants described having both positive and negative experiences. Many mentioned they did not participate in …
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Disabled IDF Veterans in Israeli Higher Education: Disability Identity and Use of Support
… identities, challenges, and utilization of support resources on their campuses. The relevant fields of Disability Studies, Veteran Studies, and the use of disability support services on campus are discussed in this study, focusing on the implementation of accessibility regulations and …
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Meeting the Aspirations of Learning Disability Policy: The Role of the Support Worker
… investigates the research question: What role do support workers play in enacting learning disability policy in England? Social care policy has developed from a culture of paternalism and institutionalisation, to one that advocates enablement and community-based care. Government policy emphasises …
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The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism
Disability support systems have undergone significant changes in contexts of rapid neoliberalisation. Services that were once provided or commissioned by the state are now increasingly delivered on an individual basis, through cash budgets and other forms of ‘individualised funding’ (IF). These …
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