Evaluating research in developmental disabilities: a conceptual framework for reviewing treatment outcomes

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene Butler ◽  
Henry Chambers ◽  
Murray Goldstein ◽  
Susan Harris ◽  
Judy Leach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Treatment Outcomes

scholarly journals Evaluating research in developmental disabilities: a conceptual framework for reviewing treatment outcomes

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene Butler ◽  
Henry Chambers ◽  
Murray Goldstein ◽  
Susan Harris ◽  
Judy Leach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Treatment Outcomes

Family Experiences of Psychiatric Services for their Relative with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verity Chester ◽  
Neil James ◽  
Ian Rogers ◽  
Jackie Grace ◽  
Regi Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Treatment Outcomes ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Improve Treatment ◽  
Past Experiences

Accessing treatment for a relative with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities requiring assessment or treatment from services can be extremely difficult for families and carers. Adverse past experiences can significantly affect the development of trust and relationships with present services and professionals. Listening and acknowledging families’ past and present concerns, alongside providing transparent information and reassurance about their relatives’ care, provides a foundation for starting positive relationships. Families are valuable in helping clinicians understand their patients fully and this helps the recovery process. Services have a duty to work collaboratively with patients’ families, in order to improve treatment outcomes including quality of life. Occasionally, there may be concerns in relation to the patient being the victim of familial financial, emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse. In such instances, safeguarding processes must be followed.

scholarly journals Mixed Messages: Validity and Ethics of Facilitated Communication

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Stock
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Developmental Disability ◽  
Facilitated Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mixed Messages

<p>Keywords</p><p>facilitated communication, autism, developmental disability, ethics</p><p>Abstract</p><p>I identify several factors that influence how significant mediation is for an instance of communication: dependability, accuracy, neutrality, control of output, and access to feedback. Then, I use this conceptual framework to discuss Facilitated Communication, a controversial method for communicating with people with autism or other developmental disabilities. After reviewing the history of this method, I try to assess whether it is valid and whether it is ethical by setting up and evaluating arguments offered on either side of the debate. My conclusion is that Facilitated Communication has not been shown to be valid, but that it may, under some conditions, be ethically acceptable.</p>

scholarly journals Conceptual framework for patient-important treatment outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian W. Sung ◽  
Rebecca G. Rogers ◽  
Matthew D. Barber ◽  
Melissa A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Pelvic Organ Prolapse ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Treatment Outcomes ◽  
Pelvic Organ

Maximum Output Intensity of the Audiokinetron

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Rankovic ◽  
William M. Rabinowitz ◽  
Gregory L. Lof
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Maximum Output ◽  
Output Intensity ◽  
Safety Studies ◽  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Auditory Integration

The Audiokinetron is a device that processes music for earphone presentation to patients undergoing auditory integration training, a treatment for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Intensity levels produced by the Audiokinetron were measured under realistic listening conditions with a KEMAR manikin substituted for a patient. Average levels at the eardrum were 110 dB SPL when the device was adjusted to the highest setting employed by a local, trained AIT practitioner and 118 dB SPL at the maximum setting of the device. These levels are potentially harmful to hearing and warrant further safety studies of AIT instruments and protocols.

Using Video Modeling Intervention and Speech Generating Devices To Teach Requesting Behaviors to Persons With Autism

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Karen Copple ◽  
Rajinder Koul ◽  
Devender Banda ◽  
Ellen Frye
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Observational Learning ◽  
Video Modeling ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
Speech Generating Device ◽  
Treatment Package

Abstract One of the instructional techniques reported in the literature to teach communication skills to persons with autism is video modeling (VM). VM is a form of observational learning that involves watching and imitating the desired target behavior(s) exhibited by the person on the videotape. VM has been used to teach a variety of social and communicative behaviors to persons with developmental disabilities such as autism. In this paper, we describe the VM technique and summarize the results of two single-subject experimental design studies that investigated the acquisition of spontaneous requesting skills using a speech generating device (SGD) by persons with autism following a VM intervention. The results of these two studies indicate that a VM treatment package that includes a SGD as one of its components can be effective in facilitating communication in individuals with autism who have little or no functional speech.

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