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Adriana Nozzolillo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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smartphone based technology to help individuals with intellectual disability and blindness manage basic indoor travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Mark F Oreilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
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Smartphone-Based Technology to Help Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Blindness Manage Basic Indoor Travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Mark F. O’reilly, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:Objectives The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. Methods The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. Results During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. Conclusions This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
Giulio E Lancioni - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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smartphone based technology to help individuals with intellectual disability and blindness manage basic indoor travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Mark F Oreilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
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Smartphone-Based Technology to Help Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Blindness Manage Basic Indoor Travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Mark F. O’reilly, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:Objectives The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. Methods The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. Results During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. Conclusions This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
Mike English - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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designing a theory informed contextually appropriate Intervention Strategy to improve delivery of paediatric services in kenyan hospitals
Implementation Science, 2013Co-Authors: Mike EnglishAbstract:District hospital services in Kenya and many low-income countries should deliver proven, effective Interventions that could substantially reduce child and newborn mortality. However such services are often of poor quality. Researchers have therefore been challenged to identify Intervention strategies that go beyond addressing knowledge, skill, or resource inadequacies to support health systems to deliver better services at scale. An effort to develop a system-oriented Intervention tailored to local needs and context and drawing on theory is described. An Intervention was designed to improve district hospital services for children based on four main strategies: a reflective process to distill root causes for the observed problems with service delivery; developing a set of possible Intervention approaches to address these problems; a search of literature for theory that provided the most appropriate basis for Intervention design; and repeatedly moving backwards and forwards between identified causes, proposed Interventions, identified theory, and knowledge of the existing context to develop an overarching Intervention that seemed feasible and likely to be acceptable and potentially sustainable. In addition to human and resource constraints key problems included failures of relevant professionals to take responsibility for or ownership of the challenge of pediatric service delivery; inadequately prepared, poorly supported leaders of service units (mid-level managers) who are often professionally and geographically isolated and an almost complete lack of useful information for routinely monitoring or understanding service delivery practice or outcomes. A system-oriented Intervention recognizing the pivotal role of leaders of service units but addressing the outer and inner setting of hospitals was designed to help shape and support an appropriate role for these professionals. It aims to foster a sense of ownership while providing the necessary understanding, knowledge, and skills for mid-level managers to work effectively with senior managers and frontline staff to improve services. The Intervention will include development of an information system, feedback mechanisms, and discussion fora that promote positive change. The vehicle for such an Intervention is a collaborative network partnering government and national professional associations. This case is presented to promote discussion on approaches to developing context appropriate Interventions particularly in international health.
Gloria Alberti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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smartphone based technology to help individuals with intellectual disability and blindness manage basic indoor travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Mark F Oreilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
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Smartphone-Based Technology to Help Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Blindness Manage Basic Indoor Travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Mark F. O’reilly, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:Objectives The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. Methods The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. Results During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. Conclusions This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
Valeria Chiariello - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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smartphone based technology to help individuals with intellectual disability and blindness manage basic indoor travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Mark F Oreilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
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Smartphone-Based Technology to Help Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Blindness Manage Basic Indoor Travel
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020Co-Authors: Giulio E Lancioni, Jeff Sigafoos, Lorenzo Desideri, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Mark F. O’reilly, Adriana NozzolilloAbstract:Objectives The present study assessed a new Intervention Strategy to help individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability and blindness (i.e., total blindness or minimal residual vision) to travel to different rooms located on both sides of long hallways. Methods The Intervention Strategy was based on the use of a smartphone (i.e., a Samsung Galaxy J4 Plus with Android 9.0 operating system) and battery-powered light sources. The smartphone was programmed to encourage the participant to walk forward alongside a wall of the hallway until its light sensor was activated by a light source positioned before a room entrance. At that point, the smartphone encouraged the participant to stop and then enter. Nine participants were involved in the study. Each session involved seven travels. Results During the baseline phase, the participants’ mean frequencies of correct travels per session varied between zero and slightly above 2. During the Intervention phase, with the smartphone-based cues, all participants showed a strong performance improvement. Their mean frequencies of correct travels varied between about 6.5 and (virtually) 7 per session during the second half of the Intervention phase. Conclusions This smartphone-based Intervention Strategy might help support indoor travel of people with intellectual disability and blindness.
