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Disabilities, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2023 - 10 articles

Cover Story: Persons with impaired cognitive functioning are often considered in national law to have diminished or no capacity to consent to research participation, meaning those who might benefit most from applied research participation may be excluded from doing so and shaping data and outcomes. Advancing older adults’ inclusion requires reformed informed consent approaches. The SHAPES Project, respecting all legal persons’ inalienable legal capacity, uses the UNCRPD and human rights model of disability as a theoretical framework. We designed a novel, inclusive, representative, informed consent process that offers a significant opportunity to advance inclusion of persons with disabilities or neurodegenerative diseases in innovative research. It is readily transferable to other research. View this paper
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 Views
18 Pages

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) establishes that people with disabilities shall enjoy their human rights on an equal basis with others. Those rights include the right to legal capacity and to protection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,693 Views
15 Pages

“I’m Not Asking for Special Treatment, I’m Asking for Access”: Experiences of University Students with Disabilities in Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa

  • Dureyah Abrahams,
  • Beata Batorowicz,
  • Peter Ndaa,
  • Sumaya Gabriels,
  • Solomon M. Abebe,
  • Xiaolin Xu and
  • Heather M. Aldersey

It is often challenging for youth with disabilities to access university education in Africa, and for those who manage to make it to university, while there, their experiences are still not barrier-free. The purpose of this study was to uncover the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,266 Views
9 Pages

24 February 2023

The aim of our study was to characterize the face recognition skills, theory of mind skills, and language skills of a single group of French participants with Williams syndrome (WS) compared to a group of participants with Down syndrome (DS). Twelve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,303 Views
18 Pages

16 February 2023

Objective: To identify the factors influencing the implementation of telerehabilitation (TR) in a post-stroke early supported discharge (ESD) rehabilitation program as perceived by clinicians and managers. Methods: A descriptive qualitative design wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,376 Views
25 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a global and multifaceted impact on public health. Marginalized and vulnerable populations, such as college students and postdoctoral fellows with disabilities or pre-existing conditions, are being disproportio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,517 Views
12 Pages

The Involvement of Athletes with Intellectual Disability in Community Sports Clubs

  • Florian Pochstein,
  • Gemma Diaz Garolera,
  • Sabine Menke and
  • Roy McConkey

People with intellectual disability lack opportunities to engage in sports, although the benefits of doing so may be even greater for them. One option is to encourage their inclusion in mainstream sports clubs that exist in nearly all European commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,111 Views
20 Pages

Applying the ‘Human Rights Model of Disability’ to Informed Consent: Experiences and Reflections from the SHAPES Project

  • Richard Lombard-Vance,
  • Evelyn Soye,
  • Delia Ferri,
  • Emma McEvoy,
  • Malcolm MacLachlan and
  • Sari Sarlio-Siintola

Understanding the complexity of informed consent processes is critically important to the success of research that requires participants to test, develop, or inform research data and results. This is particularly evident in research involving persons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,922 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Experiences of People with Disabilities during the First Year of COVID-19 Restrictions in the Province of Quebec, Canada

  • Noémie Fortin-Bédard,
  • Marie-Eve Lamontagne,
  • Naomie-Jade Ladry,
  • David Bouchard,
  • Josiane Lettre,
  • Chantal Desmarais,
  • Normand Boucher,
  • Krista L. Best,
  • Emilie Raymond and
  • Patrick Fougeyrollas
  • + 2 authors

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the province of Quebec, Canada implemented stringent measures to mitigate virus transmission, which considerably affected the life of people with disabilities (PWD). The objective of this study was to explore the experie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,600 Views
11 Pages

With increased physical restrictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many individuals, especially older adults and individuals with disabilities, experienced increased feelings of loneliness. This study aimed to identify fact...

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