Seksualność osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w opinii nauczycieli i terapeutów

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (36) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Marta Rawińska ◽  
Artur Teroiłowski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
Personal Standards ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Older Teachers

The aim of the study was to investigate teachers’ and therapists’ attitudes towards the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities. Teachers working with people with intellectual disabilities in special schools and residential special needs schools act within the institutional framework – according to a specific model of support based on official regulations as well as their personal standards and values. Their knowledge and beliefs determine to a large extent whether the environment of people with disabilities will have a supportive or repressive and restraining influence on the development and expression of sexuality in people with disabilities. The results of the study indicate that teachers and therapists show acceptance and understanding towards the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities. They respect their rights in this area. The attitudes towards the sexuality of people with mild intellectual disabilities are more positive than towards the sexuality of people with severe intellectual disabilities. Moreover, older teachers and therapists are more likely to perceive people with intellectual disabilities in more asexual terms and treat them as people without sexual needs or rights.

scholarly journals Public Attitudes Toward People With Intellectual Disabilities After Viewing Olympic or Paralympic Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Ferrara ◽  
Jan Burns ◽  
Hayley Mills
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
Attitudes Toward Disability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Despite some changes to the way that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are viewed in society, negative attitudes prevail. One of the aspirations of the 2012 Paralympic games was to influence the public’s attitudes toward people with disabilities. The aim of this study was to investigate whether stimuli depicting people with ID performing at Paralympic level of competition change attitudes toward ID. A mixed randomized comparison design was employed comparing 2 groups: those who viewed Paralympic-level ID sport footage and information and those who viewed Olympic footage and information. One hundred fourteen students, mean age 25 yr, were administered measures of implicit (subconscious) attitudes toward disability and explicit (belief-based) attitudes toward ID. Implicit attitudes significantly changed in a positive direction for both groups. The findings provide evidence that both Paralympic (ID) and Olympic media coverage may have at least a short-term effect on attitudes toward people with disabilities.

PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY COMPARED TO OTHER TYPES OF DISABILITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 571 (10) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Public Support ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Disability is a wide concept, encompassing different types of disability, different capabilities of people with disabilities and different social support needs. People with intellectual disabilities belong to a specific group. They do not fit into the mainstream of support and activation measures for disabled people. Although they are a small group (about 1%), they require care which is not provided within the current social policy towards people with disabilities. The article provides examples of public activities unfavourable and favourable for the well-being of people with intellectual disabilities. This could be a starting point for a preparation of a policy project of accurate public support for this group of people

Care and rehabilitation institutions for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Polish experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110604
Author(s):  
Monika Parchomiuk
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The People ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Residential Rehabilitation

People with intellectual disabilities benefit from many forms of institutional support, which include residential, rehabilitation, and educational services. Changes caused by the pandemic, especially the introduction of new rules relating to various aspects of life, raised several challenges and problems in the functioning of these institutions and for the people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research concerned facilities providing services for people with intellectual disabilities in Poland during the pandemic. The research goal was to determine what changes took place in the rehabilitation and care institutions during the pandemic in terms of their organization and the functioning of their clients and personnel. An online questionnaire was used. The respondents were institution employees. Data showed a number of preventive, educational, and supportive activities carried out by the institutions. Adverse changes in the psychosocial functioning of people with intellectual disabilities and other problems during the pandemic were reported.

Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Monika Mužáková ◽  
Iva Strnadová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Czech Lands

This chapter explores life in Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic) in the 20th Century for people with intellectual disabilities. It opens at the time that the Czech lands were part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This was a period marked by efforts to increase the quality of institutional care for people with intellectual disabilities. The authors then describe the period of communism. They discuss the controversial nature of an Education Act (1948), which contained a well-established network of special schools for students with disabilities as a regular part of the school system, and yet it introduced the concept of “being uneducable” for students with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. The authors also debate the role of a parental movement in advocacy for the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. The chapter concludes with the period after the fall of communism, when compulsory education was introduced for all children with no exception.

Holding the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Freitag
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Future ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Long wait lists for services and a dearth of people willing to work as caregivers ensure that many people, particularly with intellectual disabilities, continue to live with their aging parents. Informed by a personal narrative of a successful future for a person with intellectual disabilities, this chapter proposes three components that are essential for success. Adults with disabilities can benefit from establishing a life outside their parents’ home. They also need place to work and inclusion in the community. The communities created by L’Arche and the Brothers of Charity, where caregivers live and work together with people with intellectual disabilities, provide one model for care. The extent of current need makes it impossible to provide this for everyone, but some of the lessons learned from “living with” people with disabilities can perhaps be carried over into existing group homes or even institutional care settings.

Identifying the invisible: The experiences of prostitution among persons with intellectual disabilities: Implications for social work

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari Kuosmanen ◽  
Mikaela Starke
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Group Interviews

• Summary: This article explores a relatively uncharted research area. The focus of the analysis is on how professionals working in care provision units, specialized prostitution units, the police, social services and special schools detect and deal with prostitution among people with intellectual disabilities. The data were obtained primarily through focus group interviews. The study shows that organizational specialization in different authorities and services makes it difficult to identify and work with this group. Clients with complex problems tend to find themselves in between the jurisdictional fields of different authorities, meaning that many do not receive the support that they need. • Findings: In recent decades social work has undergone increasing balkanization and specialization. Each particular organization is regulated by specific legislation, regulations, forms of knowledge and normative assumptions. Professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities have difficulties in detecting prostitution among their clients, whilst those who work with prostitution lack the knowledge and methods to work with intellectual disabilities. At the same time, social work with these individuals is conducted within a field of tension between the client′s right of self-determination and professionals’ responsibilities for their well-being. • Applications: The study demonstrates that, with this type of complex problem, it is important to establish different types of collaboration between different organizations. However, due to the risk of increased control being detrimental to clients, collaboration needs to be founded on the client’s needs and right to self-determination.

scholarly journals Austria

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Germain Weber
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Policy Agendas

In the past two decades, national as well as regional policy agendas for people with disabilities and especially people with intellectual disabilities have followed strategies of inclusion and rights, with the promotion of a community-based approach.

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Ghazi Maulana ◽  
Khalilullah Khalilullah ◽  
Intan Qanita
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Public Services ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Impact

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the global population, especially the vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, indigenous people, and people with disabilities. Restriction and limited access to education, health, and public services due to measures taken to cope with the pandemic have made life even more difficult for people with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual ones. People with intellectual disabilities were not counted as a high-risk population, thus being excluded in most public health measurements that are done to encounter the pandemic. Several investigations have been conducted to explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, women, and the elderly, yet very few discussed how pandemics affected people with intellectual disabilities. This article is a review of existing literature using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) keywords like “COVID-19” and “intellectual disabilities” which was conducted in Pubmed, Web of Science, Mendeley, Google Scholar and ResearchGate to find related studies. Here we reviewed studies on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with intellectual disabilities, including access to education, healthcare, public services, and other related concerns. We also discussed the inclusivity of COVID-19 prevention and control measures taken so far and how it should be designed to accommodate people with intellectual disabilities. This review is expected to provide an insight for the stakeholders and policymakers to employ better and more inclusive approach in the management of pandemic to ensure the wellbeing and rights of people with disabilities in general and people with intellectual ones in particular.

Special needs of adolescents and elderly people with intellectual disability

2012 ◽  
pp. 1878-1883
Author(s):  
Jane Hubert ◽  
Sheila Hollins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Social health and mental health needs change throughout life, and this chapter highlights those particularly relevant for adolescents and elderly people. As a general rule, people with intellectual disabilities have the same needs as other members of the community, but they may also have additional needs for which they are entitled to extra support.

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