Structural Relationship among Disability Acceptance, Resilience, and Social Participation of Adolescents with Physical Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Eunra Kim ◽  
Jaekuk Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Structural Relationship ◽  
Disability Acceptance

scholarly journals A Mobile App to Optimize Social Participation for Individuals with Physical Disabilities: Content Validation and Usability Testing

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1753
Author(s):  
Dahlia Kairy ◽  
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi ◽  
Catherine Blanchette-Dallaire ◽  
Eva Belanger ◽  
Andrea Corbeil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Mobility Limitations ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Optimization

Background: Social participation is beneficial for individuals’ health. However, people with disabilities that may lead to mobility limitations tend to experience lower levels of social participation. Information and communication technologies such as the OnRoule mobile application (app) can help promote social participation. Objectives: To obtain potential users’ perceptions on the usability and content of the OnRoule app for providing information on accessibility, as well as its potential to optimize social participation. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional user-centered design study. Individuals with physical disabilities (n = 18) were recruited through community organizations and interviewed using a semi-structured guide. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Three main themes were identified: (1) “user-friendliness”; (2) “balance between the amount and relevance of information”; and (3) “potential use of the app”. Discussion and Conclusion: Findings from this study indicated that the app was easy to use, had pertinent information, and enabled a positive experience of finding information. However, several areas of improvement were identified, such as the clarity of specific elements, organization and amount of information, optimization of features, and inclusiveness. Apps such as OnRoule could optimize social participation by facilitating the process of finding resources in the community and building a sense of connectedness between users.

scholarly journals Development and psychometric testing of an instrument for measuring social participation of adolescents: study protocol of a prospective mixed-methods study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e028529
Author(s):  
Tim Baerwalde ◽  
Britta Gebhard ◽  
Laura Hoffmann ◽  
Julia Roick ◽  
Olaf Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Psychometric Testing ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
The Individual

IntroductionSocial participation is an important part of a young person’s life. It influences the social experience, social-emotional development and dimensions of competence experience. This applies to people with or without physical disabilities or chronic diseases. Currently, there is no reliable assessment tool for measuring social participation of adolescents in Germany although social participation is a central goal of rehabilitation. The aim of this study is to develop, test and pilot an instrument that assesses social participation for adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 years and to start a psychometric test.Methods and analysisIn a sequential mixed-methods study, adolescents with and without physical disabilities or chronic diseases are asked about their experiences with social participation as well as the individual significance of self-determination through semistructured interviews. The perspective of adolescents is supplemented by focus groups that will be conducted first with experts from social paediatric care and second with legal guardians. Based on this, an assessment instrument will be developed, evaluated and implemented in exemplary social paediatric centres (SPCs) and rehabilitation clinics and psychometrically tested in a pilot study.Ethics and disseminationThe study will be conducted in accordance with the principles of the revised Helsinki Declaration. The study was approved by the Ethics Review Committee at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. The developed assessment instrument can be used in science to identify disadvantaged groups and to compensate for the disadvantages that could impair development. For this purpose, the results will be presented at scientific conferences and published in international peer-reviewed journals. In practice, the instrument can be used to determine the goals of rehabilitation together with the adolescents and to evaluate the achievement of these goals. For this, implementation workshops and further training will be organised and carried out in children’s rehabilitation clinics and SPCs.Trial registration numberDRKS00014739; Pre-results.

Participation in School: School Assistants Creating Opportunities and Obstacles for Pupils with Disabilities

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Hemmingsson ◽  
Lena Borell ◽  
Anders Gustavsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Flexible Support

This study addresses how help is provided for pupils with physical disabilities and how school assistants influence their participation in school. Data were collected through field observations and interviews with seven pupils between 7 and 15 years old and with each pupil's teacher and assistant. The analysis resulted in a description of features that influenced how help was provided and the consequences in school for the pupil with disabilities. A major finding was that the assistants could both facilitate and hinder participation. We concluded that an awareness of the priority the pupils place on social participation with their peers is needed to ensure effective and flexible support is made available to pupils with disabilities.

scholarly journals Game Accessibility and Advocacy for Participation of the Japanese Disability Community

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Muneo Kaigo ◽  
Sae Okura
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Visual Disabilities ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Email Survey

In this paper we examine the recent situation of advocacy through game accessibility of video games for people with physical disabilities and its challenges in Japan. We conducted an email survey among the dominant gaming companies in Japan. We discovered that most gaming companies developing games for those with disabilities have actually attempted to provide some consideration to people with disabilities through setting additional special functions such as “easy mode” and “support for visual disabilities”. One out of five companies could be categorized as having successfully developed games based on the concept of specialized assistive technology, and the remaining companies could be categorized as having developed games for disabilities based on the concept of barrier-reducing goods. We also found out that the major Japanese gaming corporations had a tendency not to be active in communicating with the disability communities. Our results might indicate that stronger interaction with the gaming companies is one direct way to enhance further development of games for people with disabilities. In addition to that, considering that games are a significant form of social participation for people with disabilities, more social understanding is required in the Japanese domestic context.

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