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Wednesday 27 August 2014

Research news and commentary #9 for 2014


Lines of Inquiry, #5, August 2014
Centre for Applied Disability Research (A national Disability Services initiative)
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Reimagining disability: Ground-breaking new research
University of Waikato (NZ), 13th August 2014
University of Waikato PhD candidate Ingrid Jones is conducting ground-breaking new research into changing the way society thinks about disability. Her research, entitled “Reimagining disability: Towards learning disability pride” aims to explore the concepts of disability pride and ableism with a group of learning (intellectually) disabled people.

“Having a disability is largely viewed as having a problem, when it shouldn’t be,” she says. “It’s just a part of the diversity of humanity. The reason we have disability oppression is because society views disability as a problem. Being “able” is seen as the norm, when society is more diverse than that.” ...

Richard McKie, The Observer (UK), 17th August 2014
A furious international dispute has erupted over the publication of a paper that claims the hobbit man of Flores was a modern human who had Down's syndrome ...

Inclusive Classrooms Provide Language Boost, Study Finds
Michelle Diament, Disability Scoop, 29th July 2014
For young children with disabilities, the key to mastering language may be surrounding them with their typically-developing peers, researchers say. Over the course of just one school year, a new study finds that preschoolers with disabilities who attended mainstream classes with highly-skilled peers were using language on par with their classmates without disabilities ...
  • Peer Effects in Early Childhood Education: Testing the Assumptions of Special-Education Inclusion Laura M. Justice et al, Psychological Science, published online 25th July 2014 Abstract free online
Hearing new words first helps children with Down syndrome when reading
Down Syndrome Education International, 29th July 2014
Recently-published findings suggest that when children with Down syndrome attempt to read unfamiliar words, it is helpful if they know what the word sounds like ...

Down syndrome teens need support, health assessed
Rebecca Graham, ScienceNetwork Western Australia, 24th July 2014
Young adults with Down syndrome experience a range of physical and mental health conditions over and above those commonly reported in children with the condition—and these health problems may significantly impact their daily lives, according to recent research. The collaborative study between the Telethon Kids Institute, Curtin University and the University of Queensland also found these young people often experience multiple conditions, and that mental health conditions were almost four times more prevalent in these young adults than in those from the general WA population ...


Mothers of children with autism benefit from peer-led intervention: study
Jennifer Wetzel, Research News @ Vanderbilt, 21st July 2014
... In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Vanderbilt University examined two treatment programs in a large number of primary caregivers of a child with a disability. Participants in both groups experienced improvements in mental health, sleep and overall life satisfaction and showed less dysfunctional parent-child interactions ...

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