Using Autonomous Teams to Improve Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW As the quality of life for the mental health of people with intellectual disabilities has been identified as a comprehensive indicator of intervention efficacy, scientific interest around it is shifting from theoretical issues to the ways of measurement. Nevertheless, the daily assessment still awaits the addressing of the questions of what the essence of quality of life is, h...

Lazy Learning Methods for Quality of Life Assessment in People with Intellectual Disabilities

Safety of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Hospital. What Can the Hospital Pharmacist Do to Improve Quality of Care?

People with intellectual disabilities are vulnerable in healthcare environments. They experience health and healthcare inequalities, and when admitted to general hospitals are at a greater risk of patient safety incidents. This is well known in specialist services, but less recognized within primary or secondary healthcare. The most significant barriers to safer and better healthcare appear to ...

The Magic Stone: A Video Game to Improve Communication Skills of People with Intellectual Disabilities

“The Magic Stone” is a video game whose main aim is to help people with Down syndrome to improve communication skills that have been affected due to their disability, especially those related with prosody. The interface of the video game includes a number of elements to motivate the users to practice and train their pronunciation. The usability tests of the system have reported high degrees of ...

Using Questions in Cognitive Therapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities.

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the provision of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to people with intellectual disabilities. A small number of studies have begun to address therapy process issues. AIMS The aim of this paper is to contribute to process research through the development of a taxonomy of question types for use in analysing therapy interactions in CBT for people with in...