There is no doubt that God’s blessings upon us are many and innumerable, and among the most important of these blessings in this world is the blessing of health and the safety of the body from all ...evil, but a person may be afflicted with deficiency or deformity in his body that hinders him from performing his tasks in this life in an easy and smooth manner like the rest of his peers. Therefore, every normal person should praise God for this physical well-being, and respect everyone whom God has afflicted with a deficiency in his body, because he may be in the place of that person one day, and there is no doubt that there are laws that protect this category of people with special needs, Whether at the international or internal level, the matter is not enough, and therefore it falls on the shoulders of states in particular and the international system in general, through charters, to enact laws that guarantee adequate protection for this category, and guarantee them a decent life.
Information systems offer major contributions to the establishment of accessible tourism conditions. However, these solutions need to be correctly developed, which often implicates approaches based ...on user-centered methodologies. To improve information flow within the accessible tourism market, an accessible tourism information system was prototyped. The development of this solution, named access@tour by action, involved a rigorous testing process, to evaluate the acceptability and mainly the difficulties of interaction with specific needs. Thus, the objective of this study is to explore the results obtained from usability testing of the prototype, involving people with special needs, social organizations, and caregivers. The results showed that some improvements were needed namely in the registration process, evaluation of tourism offers, and on the layout of information. Notwithstanding, the overall perception of ease of interaction, and accessibility was good. This user feedback will be used to obtain the final version of the platform.
The article highlights the problem of forming the readiness of practical psychologists to work in an inclusive environment and analyses the latest scientific studies on the outlined problem. It ...presents the main approaches to the interpretation of the essence of the readiness of practical psychologists for professional activity as well as the components (motivational, cognitive, activity-based), the relevant criteria (awareness and perception, tolerant attitude, active work; general knowledge about the essence of psychological support in an inclusive environment, technological knowledge about diagnosis and monitoring of educational needs of children with problems; diagnostic, preventive, corrective and educational, consultative, educational activities) and the areas of work of specialists with clients in an inclusive environment. The article concentrates on the characteristics of the components of the formation of readiness of practical psychologists for the specified activity. It gives the effective methods and technologies for each component of readiness: psychological and pedagogical observation, emphasis, survey, interviewing, tests and individual tasks). It emphasises the difficulties in the process of conflict situation prevention and the mistakes made when providing correctional and developing services for people with common educational problems. The article determines the prospects for further research, in particular, the introduction of educational disciplines into the educational program that would expand the professional competence of practical psychologists in the process of providing psychological support to clients in an inclusive environment.
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Independent transport of people with special needs often requires the adaptation of a motorcar to increase the comfort of use and enable proper operating of a vehicle. This adaptation ...involves, for example, mounting special devices on the steering wheel. This violates the so-called survival zone, defined by (UN/ECE) regulation No. 21. and can deteriorate the occupant’s safety. This study shows the risk for the driver caused by an additional knob mounted on a steering wheel. Model tests were prepared and carried out with the use of the PC-Crash program environment. The simulations of the frontal collisions into the obstacle were computed and the dynamic loads affecting the driver with and without additional adaptation elements on the steering wheel were assessed. Obtained results portray that the impact of the driver’s head into the adaptation element during the collision is possible. This causes a visible increase in the HIC15 head injury indicator by up to 80% for a collision speed of 65 km/h compared to a car without an adaptation device. It was found that the risk of head injury is on average 15% greater compared to the variant without an adaptation device.
Dental health care is very important for the general health of people with special needs, but its efforts vary by institution. This study aimed to clarify the actual situation of dental health care ...and related issues by investigating the dental health initiatives and status of dental examinations among users of facilities for people with special needs in Niigata Prefecture, and evaluate the effectiveness of the assignment of dental professionals. A questionnaire survey was sent to 1,021 facilities for people with special needs in Niigata Prefecture, and responses were received from 801. Among these, 5.1% had a dental professional (dentists and/or dental hygienists). We evaluated the status of dental health management, dental care, and dietary assistance and eating function maintenance in each institution. Based on the results of logistic regression analysis, facilities with dental professionals provided significantly more opportunities to receive a dental examination (odds ratio OR=7.02, 95% confidence interval CI: 2.66-18.55) and dental health guidance (OR=4.34, 95%CI: 1.98-9.51), made significantly greater efforts to prevent dental diseases (OR=3.97, 95%CI: 1.50-10.44), engaged in significantly more daily cooperation (OR=5.02, 95%CI: 2.29-10.99) and consultation with dental professionals (OR=6.53, 95%CI: 2.46-17.35), and showed a significantly higher rate of meeting patients’ needs (OR=3.37, 95%CI: 1.58-7.15). These findings suggest that the placement of dental professionals in facilities for people with special needs is correlated with better dental health.
Introduction: People with disabilities or special needs can benefit from AI-based conversational agents (i.e., chatbots) that are used for competence training and well-being management. Assessing the ...quality of interactions with these chatbots is key to being able to reduce dissatisfaction with them and to understanding their potential long-term benefit. This in turn will help to increase adherence to their use, thereby improving the quality of life of the large population of end-users that they are able to serve.
Methods: Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, we systematically reviewed the literature on methods of assessing the perceived quality of interactions with chatbots using the from Scopus and the Web of Science electronic databases. Using the Boolean operators (AND/OR) the keywords chatbot*, conversational agent*, special needs, disability were combined.
Results: Revealed that only 15 of 192 papers on this topic included people with disabilities or special needs in their assessments. The results also highlighted the lack of a shared theoretical framework for assessing the perceived quality of interactions with chatbots.
Conclusion: Systematic procedures based on reliable and valid methodologies continue to be needed in this field. The current lack of reliable tools and systematic methods to assess chatbots for people with disabilities and special needs is concerning, and ultimately, it may also lead to unreliable systems entering the market with disruptive consequences for people.
Implications for rehabilitation
Chatbots applied in rehabilitation are mainly tested in terms of clinical effectiveness and validity with a minimal focus on measuring the quality of the interaction
The usability and interactive properties of chatbots applied in rehabilitation are not comparable as each tool is measured in different way
The lack of a common framework to assess chatbots exposes people with disability and special needs to the risk of using unreliable tools
The paper presents the functional clothing assortment study results by determining the current areas of its use. It is proposed the thorough study of the clothing product range for people with ...special needs. The main focus is on disabled people social inclusion which becomes possible thanks to adaptive clothing products. The paper is intended to theoretical knowledge grounding on functional clothing and its production rounds setting. The topicality of the subject is determined by the growing interest of specialists in the field and by the large number, worldwide and local, of people who represent a disability. The paper presents the fundamental notions regarding functional clothing, the modern assortment of functional clothing classification scheme and the scheme of the aimed at assortment design process. The functional clothing products development process stands for the clothes wearing conditions study in the interest of specific technical requirements processing, the dimensional typology data use, the "man-product" system ergonomic research carrying out, the original constructive solutions determining. One of the problems that are trying to be solved in this paper is finding solutions in order to increase the number of products types manufactured while increasing the functional clothing products quality for disabled people. The high-quality functional clothing products obtaining leads to a number increase of constructively made products and technologically manufactured homogeneous products. The design process scheme of clothing intended for disabled people is developed to facilitate the functional clothing products developing process.
Afin de conscientiser les étudiants à la réalité des personnes à besoins spéciaux lors d’activités de loisir inclusif, la présente étude expérimente la pédagogie immersive expérientielle permettant ...d’éveiller la curiosité et l’intérêt des futurs récréologues inscrits au cours « loisir inclusif ». Les apprenantes ont vécu l’immersion dans la réalité de résidentes d’un foyer de soins. Ce contact a pu s’articuler autour d’une activité de loisir axée sur la peinture, l’expression de soi et l’échange en groupe avec le soutien d’un artiste peintre. Vingt-sept étudiantes ont expérimenté un apprentissage expérientiel immersif dans une ambiance de respect et d’empathie. L’analyse qualitative de récits d’expérience, de questionnaires d’appréciation et de notes d’observation directe démontre l’impact formateur de l’approche pédagogique immersive expérientielle. En effet, les résultats révèlent les appréhensions initiales rattachées aux stéréotypes véhiculés concernant la santé mentale, et que l’effet des rencontres et des interactions humaines a aidé à remettre en question.
PurposeThe aim of this study is to identify the travel constraints of people with special needs (PwSN) and the strategies used to overcome them. The article also intends to analyze the differences in ...travel constraints and negotiation strategies according to the type of disability and/or special need.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative study was conducted in which a sample of PwSN (people with disabilities – mobility, sensory and cognitive – seniors and people with food allergies) were interviewed in depth.FindingsPwSN face a wide range of constraints when engaging in tourism activities. These constraints are very diverse and influence people with different intensity and have to be overcome using different negotiation strategies. However, differences in the constraints were observed according to the type of special needs.Practical implicationsOne of the most significant practical implications of this research is the need for raising awareness regarding human diversity among tourism stakeholders. It is critical to link sectoral policies that are reflected in the social and business reality, creating public–private partnerships to raise the sharing of knowledge, equipment and services. By addressing the constraints that prevent PwSN from traveling, the tourism sector can create more opportunities for them to participate in social activities, improving their quality of life and contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive industry.Originality/valueTraveling can present significant challenges for people with special needs, which affect the quality of their tourism experience. Despite growing academic attention to this issue in recent years, research in this field has primarily focused on specific aspects of disability. This study seeks not only to identify the barriers to travel faced by people with different special needs but also to explore the negotiation strategies used to overcome these barriers and the differences according to the type of special need.
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