Disability - Society
About this group
Group information
In the research group projects are being conducted that highlight the relationship between people with different types of disabilities and the surrounding society. It can, for example, be about disability in school or working life, but also leisure and living, and how accessibility in the environment and social support affect the individual's conditions for everyday functioning and participation. It can also be about how the environment, such as noise, affects the functionality and health of individuals.
The research conducted by the group often has a bio-psycho-social approach, which simply means that we strive for a multidimensional view in relation to the individual's disability. The projects shed light on the complex interplay that prevails between the individual's physical and mental abilities, the various activities that the individual performs in daily life, and factors in the surroundings and the environment that in some way have an impact on the individual, the activity, and the individual's participation in the activity. Health and health promotion in the relationship individual-environment or environment-individual are also central concepts and aspects that are considered in the group's various research projects.
Additional member of the research group: Kajsa Jerlinder, Högskolan i Gävle (HiG).
Research projects
Active projects
- Audio systems in school education
- Hearing loss in the working life - a salutogenic perspective
- Hearing-related risk-taking among children and adolescents
- Implementation of IPS within the psychosis care
- Listening habits and noise induced hearing loss among adolescents 10-15 years of age. -A longitudinal study
- Participation in physical activity among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
- Supported Employment and gender - how do sex and gender influence a vocational rehabilitation process for men and women with mental and intellectual disabilities?
Completed projects
- Employment - work - disability
- Hearing loss and sleep disorders
- ICF Core Sets for Hearing Loss
- ICF- core sets for hearing loss; validation and operationalization of Brief ICF-Core set for hearing loss into a self-assessment instrument
- Keeping a job: on people with disabilities in the labour market
- New paths to working life
- Problems faced by the hearing impaired persons at their work place
- Rehabilitation, occupation and jobs for people with disabilities
- Returning to working life after Acquired Brain Injury
- Supported employment - Sustainable work
- Upper secondary school for persons with intellectual disabilities and transition to working life
