Leisure time in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities

Leisure time in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
Author: Yvonne Claus
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3346527530

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Pedagogy - Orthopaedagogy and Special Education, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Institut für Pädagogik), language: English, abstract: Leisure time and leisure activities are a very important part of the social rehabilitation of people with intellectual disabilities. It offers the opportunity to eliminate exclusions and promote social integration. The offer of leisure time, education and cultural participation is as important for a meaningful and self-determined life as work. "Especially (above all) the field of leisure is attributed a fundamental (original) importance for life realisation, life satisfaction and life happiness, since leisure, unlike work, is not subject to coercion or pressure to perform, but is based on voluntariness, freedom and self-decision" (Theunissen 1995, p.70). In this paper I would like to deal with the topic of "leisure time in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities". In doing so, I would like to find answers to the following questions: What leisure needs do mentally disabled people have and what might influence them? What does the leisure situation of people with intellectual disabilities look like? What tasks does this give rise to for leisure time education? For the elaboration I mainly used books by H. Ebert, R. Markowetz and H. Opaschowski. To supplement my notes, I used literature by Zielniok, Theunissen and others. First, I will go into more detail about Opaschowski's positive concept of leisure time, as this can be applied to all population groups and is therefore also valid for people with disabilities. Then I will talk about leisure needs and the difficulties they face. I will then discuss the question of the leisure situation in order to be able to better explain the tasks and goals of leisure education.

Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Author: Ralph Kober
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9048196507

This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The book commences with a general discussion on defining quality of life and family quality of life and the appropriateness of using these constructs in the field of intellectual disability, and is followed by an analysis on the effects of living arrangements and employment on quality of life. The book concludes with discussions on the unique issues facing children with intellectual disabilities and people living in developing countries and the effect these issues have upon their quality of life.

Quality of Life for People with Disabilities

Quality of Life for People with Disabilities
Author: Roy I. Brown
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1997
Genre: Handicapped
ISBN: 9780748732944

Interest in quality of life has increased considerably over recent years and is now making considerable impact amongst all practitioners concerned with people with disabilities. This book looks critically at the concepts, assessment and practice as they relate to quality of life issues in many fields of disability. The issues for professional training and practice are evaluated and the benefits of involvement in creative activities are examined. Vocational, social and leisure implications for quality of life considerations are also explored in a number of chapters. Case studies and examples are used throughout the book to make this edition accessible and of real practical use to all those working with people with disabilities.

Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure

Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure
Author: Ted Tedrick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136371168

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you! Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure will help you improve your ability to instruct exercise and other fitness activities and, at the same time, increase your knowledge about aging and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This combination of skills and knowledge is important to your understanding of your clients and their needs. You will assist them in leading a more active, structured life that will result in a higher sense of satisfaction in their daily living and health benefits that will speak for themselves. Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure gives you specific guidelines for establishing fitness programs as well as ideas for offering clients goals and incentives that will evoke and maintain their enthusiasm to participate. Using a proven model, the Arts/Fitness Quality of Life Activities Program, the authors show how careful planning and sequencing can produce successful results, such as peer interaction, flexible thinking, self-expression, and improved mental health. As you learn about the key factors for programming for this group of clients, you will also learn about: the demographics of this population leisure education training and cross-training with aging specialists and mental retardation staff community integration and for whom it is appropriate inactivity in later life and the complications it causes life satisfaction and leisure participation differences in physical and cognitive functioning among this population consumer satisfaction among older adults with developmental disabilities It is never too late to introduce leisure activities into the lives of those with developmental disabilities. With encouragement and careful guidance, you can lead your elders/clients into a more active and healthy life. Use Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure as a guide to find activities and exercise programs that are appropriate, fun, and worthwhile!

Developing Recreation Skills in Persons with Learning Disabilties

Developing Recreation Skills in Persons with Learning Disabilties
Author: Lorraine C. Peniston
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Contents: An Introduction; Learning Disabilities; Awareness; Leisure; Delivery of Recreation Programs to Persons with Learning Disabilities; Specific Accommodation and Modifications of Recreation Activities for Persons with Learning Disabilities; Resources; Appendices.

The Pursuit of Leisure

The Pursuit of Leisure
Author: G. Allan Roeher Institute
Publisher: Downsview, Ont. : G. Allan Roeher Institute
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1989
Genre: Disabled
ISBN:

This document contains papers on the following themes, our leisure identity; leisure and relationships; regenerating community; beyond leisure buddy programs; the politics of leisure, freedom, and poverty; the impact of integrated employment on leisure lifestyles; creating cooperative play environments as a strategy for integration; recreation is for everyone; recreation integration from a parent's perspective; and ten commonly asked questions about recreation and integration.

Community-based Rehabilitation

Community-based Rehabilitation
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241548052

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Being Heumann

Being Heumann
Author: Judith Heumann
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080701950X

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

People with Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities

People with Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities
Author: Penny Lacey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134097530

First Published in 1999. This book is designed to be useful to practitioners working with children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). It was born out of a need for a practically-based text book for participants on a course devoted to the study of PMLD but became a project to provide discussion of interest to anyone wishing to reflect on their work in this field. It is hoped that the nineteen chapters in this book will provide a broad ranging resource for practitioners who work with children and/or adults with PMLD in education, health, social care and voluntary settings and for those studying on advanced courses.