Realabilities: Improving Behavioral Intentions and Attitudes Toward Children With Disabilities

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Rebecca Ruchlin ◽  
Senada Arucevic
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Attitudes Toward Children

“What If Goodness Ruled the World?”

2018 ◽  
pp. 208-236
Author(s):  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Patrick Riley
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes

This chapter describes how the Realabilities Comic Book Series and the Addy & Uno Off-Broadway Musical feature five characters with disabilities, who harness the special strengths-associated with their disabilities (Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Visual, Hearing and Physical Disability)-to save their school from bullies. The intent of the following five studies was to utilize pre-post-test designs to examine the efficacy of various iterations of a musical and/or a full comic book series curriculum in enhancing typical children's empathy, cognitive attitudes on the adjective checklist (ACL) and behavioral intentions on the shared activities questionnaire (SAQ) towards children with disabilities. Following the musical and/or comic book series curriculum, the participants showed significantly improved behavioral intentions and improved cognitive attitudes towards children with disabilities. These findings help demonstrate how creative programs like these may foster empathy and serve as a useful antidote to counter negative attitudes towards individuals with disabilities.

“What If Goodness Ruled the World?”

2021 ◽  
pp. 527-555
Author(s):  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Patrick Riley
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes

This chapter describes how the Realabilities Comic Book Series and the Addy & Uno Off-Broadway Musical feature five characters with disabilities, who harness the special strengths-associated with their disabilities (Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Visual, Hearing and Physical Disability)-to save their school from bullies. The intent of the following five studies was to utilize pre-post-test designs to examine the efficacy of various iterations of a musical and/or a full comic book series curriculum in enhancing typical children's empathy, cognitive attitudes on the adjective checklist (ACL) and behavioral intentions on the shared activities questionnaire (SAQ) towards children with disabilities. Following the musical and/or comic book series curriculum, the participants showed significantly improved behavioral intentions and improved cognitive attitudes towards children with disabilities. These findings help demonstrate how creative programs like these may foster empathy and serve as a useful antidote to counter negative attitudes towards individuals with disabilities.

Realabilities

2016 ◽  
pp. 448-469
Author(s):  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Senada Arucevic ◽  
Rebecca Ruchlin ◽  
Vanessa Norkus
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
Positive Expectancies ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes

This chapter explores Realabilities, a video-based children's television program featuring unique characters, each with a distinct disability. Beyond utilizing video technology to directly teach cognitive and social-emotional skills to children with autism, Realabilities demonstrates how video can be used to foster positive behavioral intentions and cognitive attitudes towards children with autism and other disabilities. Realabilities also reveals how a video medium can promote a stop bullying platform, especially since children with disabilities are at least two to three times more victimized by bullying than their typical peers. One hundred and sixty-six students from schools in Manhattan, NY, and Baltimore, MD, showed more favorable behavioral intentions and cognitive attitudes towards hypothetical peers with disabilities following a three episode viewing of Realabilities. Finally, Realabilities not only showcases the realities of disabilities but shares the potential strengths that children with disabilities possess. This is particularly illuminating, since the Affect/Effort Theory suggests that children are more motivated to interact with others when they possess positive expectancies of their social interaction partners.

Realabilities

2014 ◽  
pp. 253-273
Author(s):  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Senada Arucevic ◽  
Rebecca Ruchlin ◽  
Vanessa Norkus
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
Positive Expectancies ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes

This chapter explores Realabilities, a video-based children’s television program featuring unique characters, each with a distinct disability. Beyond utilizing video technology to directly teach cognitive and social-emotional skills to children with autism, Realabilities demonstrates how video can be used to foster positive behavioral intentions and cognitive attitudes towards children with autism and other disabilities. Realabilities also reveals how a video medium can promote a stop bullying platform, especially since children with disabilities are at least two to three times more victimized by bullying than their typical peers. One hundred and sixty-six students from schools in Manhattan, NY, and Baltimore, MD, showed more favorable behavioral intentions and cognitive attitudes towards hypothetical peers with disabilities following a three episode viewing of Realabilities. Finally, Realabilities not only showcases the realities of disabilities but shares the potential strengths that children with disabilities possess. This is particularly illuminating, since the Affect/Effort Theory suggests that children are more motivated to interact with others when they possess positive expectancies of their social interaction partners.

From the President: Working Early-Intervention Magic in Community Settings

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patty Prelock
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
The Way

Children with disabilities benefit most when professionals let families lead the way.

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