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19. Attentional processes in interactions between people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities and direct support staff

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Ine, Hostyn, Hostyn, Ine, Heleen, Neerinckx, Neerinckx, Heleen, Bea, Maes, and Maes, Bea

Subjects
Adult, Male, Joint attention, Adolescent, Multiple disabilities, Developmental psychology, Young Adult, Intellectual Disability, Developmental and Educational Psychology, medicine, Humans, Attention, Disabled Persons, Child, Practical implications, Modality (human–computer interaction), Social Support, Videotape Recording, Cognition, Professional-Patient Relations, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Social relation, Developmental disorder, Clinical Psychology, Acoustic Stimulation, Touch, Child, Preschool, Female, Psychology, Photic Stimulation, Dyad
Abstract

Few studies have examined joint attention in interactions with persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), despite its important role in high-quality interaction. The purpose of this study is to describe the attention-directing behaviours of persons with PIMD and their direct support staff and the attention episodes resulting from their interactions, and to understand how these variables relate to each other. Video observations of 17 staff-client dyads were coded using partial interval recording. The results showed considerable variation across individuals and dyads. In general, persons with PIMD directed the attention of staff members infrequently. The staff members frequently directed their clients' attention towards a topic of interest but did not often use the tactile modality. Within the staff-client dyad, there was not much joint attention; however, shared attention episodes occurred frequently. Shared attention and joint attention are strongly correlated. A negative correlation was found between clients not using attention-directing behaviours and staff members using tactile methods to direct the attention, and joint attention episodes. This study presents both directions for future research and practical implications.

Published
2010

21. Attentional processes in interactions between people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities and direct support staff.

Author

Hostyn I, Neerinckx H, and Maes B

Subjects
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation, Social Support, Touch, Videotape Recording, Young Adult, Attention, Disabled Persons psychology, Intellectual Disability psychology, Professional-Patient Relations
Abstract

Few studies have examined joint attention in interactions with persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), despite its important role in high-quality interaction. The purpose of this study is to describe the attention-directing behaviours of persons with PIMD and their direct support staff and the attention episodes resulting from their interactions, and to understand how these variables relate to each other. Video observations of 17 staff-client dyads were coded using partial interval recording. The results showed considerable variation across individuals and dyads. In general, persons with PIMD directed the attention of staff members infrequently. The staff members frequently directed their clients' attention towards a topic of interest but did not often use the tactile modality. Within the staff-client dyad, there was not much joint attention; however, shared attention episodes occurred frequently. Shared attention and joint attention are strongly correlated. A negative correlation was found between clients not using attention-directing behaviours and staff members using tactile methods to direct the attention, and joint attention episodes. This study presents both directions for future research and practical implications., (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

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2011
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