Background: Internships may be a successful pathway for increasing employment rates among people with intellectual disability. This paper presents a summative evaluation of a brief film internship program for people with intellectual disability.
Method: At the commencement and conclusion of the internship, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight interns and 10 mentors. The interview material was analysed thematically.
Results: Five themes described the experiences of interns: enhancing intern skill development and recognising gaps, building intern confidence, providing interns with assistance, meeting interns' expectations of the program, and working towards ongoing employment. Four themes were present in the discussions with mentors: drawing on previous experience with people with disability and mentoring roles, feeling confident in a mentor role, providing mentors with support, and reflecting on interns' future job prospects.
Conclusion: Although the program developed interns' skills and confidence, an expanded program appears needed to generate open employment outcomes.
Background: Research is lacking on body-related consequences of sexual abuse in adults with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning (MID-BIF), although the prevalence of abuse is high and body- and movement-oriented diagnostics and therapeutics seem warranted for this group.
Method: Body experience in adults with MID-BIF who were sexually abused (SA) and were not sexually abused (NSA) was compared using a self-report instrument, the Body Experience Questionnaire-mb, and an instrument to observe non-verbal psychomotor behaviour, the PsyMot-mb.
Results: The SA group showed significantly higher self-reported body awareness and more observed problems with body acceptance than the NSA group. No significant group differences were found for self-reported body satisfaction and body attitude.
Conclusions: Adults with MID-BIF who were sexually abused are more aware of their body signals, but less able to adequately attend to, tolerate, and interpret these signals. Therefore, body- and movement-oriented therapies hold promise for this group.
Background: Raising a child with developmental disorder is often related to higher stress levels for both mothers and fathers. The aim of the present study was to investigate relationships between resilience, family hardiness, life satisfaction and parental stress among parents of children with and without disabilities.
Method: Twenty-eight pairs of parents of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 15 of a child with Down Syndrome and 25 of a child without disability took part in the study. All parents completed four questionnaires independently.
Results: Significant differences between groups emerged in parental resilience, stress, and life satisfaction. Correlational analyses showed that parental hardiness and resilience were negatively related to parental stress through all the three groups.
Conclusions: These findings point to increased evidence that the presence of a disability may not directly affect the sense of family hardiness. Practical implications were discussed.
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