Internet use and online safety in adults with Williams syndrome

Lough, Emma; Fisher, Marisa H.

doi:10.1111/jir.12281

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“…Several young people emphasise the risk of being bullied when using the Internet but it is especially found among adolescents with intellectual disabilities (Alper and Goggin, 2017;Normand and Sallafranque-St-Louis, 2016). Research demonstrates that persons with intellectual disabilities are not unaware of different online risks (Bannon et al, 2015;Molin et al, 2015) although risks for vulnerable groups such as young people with intellectual disabilities need further investigation (Chadwick et al, 2017;Eurostat, 2017;Lough and Fisher, 2016). Comparative studies of Internet use between people with intellectual disabilities and the general population are required to investigate digital participation and equalities and inequalities, for example, regarding risks with the Internet (Alper and Goggin, 2017;Chiner et al, 2017).…”

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Digital participation? Internet use among adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities: A comparative study

Ågren¹,

Kjellberg

Hemmingsson

2019

New Media & Society

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Internet use is an integrated part of everyday life, especially among young people. However, knowledge of this for young people with disabilities is scarce. This study investigates digital participation of adolescents with intellectual disabilities by comparing aspects of Internet use among adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities. Cross-sectional comparative design was used and a national survey from the Swedish Media Council was cognitively adapted for adolescents with intellectual disabilities aged 13–20 years. The results reveal that a significantly lower proportion of the 114 participating adolescents with intellectual disabilities had access to Internet-enabled devices and performed Internet activities, except for playing games, than the reference group ( n = 1161). The greatest difference was found in searching for information. Analyses indicate that adolescents with intellectual disabilities are following a similar pattern of Internet use as the reference group, but a digital lag is prevalent, and a more cognitively accessible web could be beneficial.

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Digital participation? Internet use among adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities: A comparative study

Ågren¹,

Kjellberg

Hemmingsson

2019

New Media & Society

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“…This situation is derived from a greater perception of potential risks (e.g. investing money, being sexually abused, giving credit to false information or being exposed to manipulative content) on the part of the caregivers in the use of the Internet that people with ID make (Chadwick, Quinn, and Fullwood 2017;Lough and Fisher 2016;Seale and Chadwick 2017). In this way, the potential benefits of its use can be mediated by the caregivers' fears that these people have problems online.…”

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Selection and evaluation of Internet information by adults with intellectual disabilities

Salmerón

Fajardo

Gómez‐Puerta

2018

European Journal of Special Needs Education

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Internet offers people with intellectual disabilities (ID) unique opportunities to access information and to participate in society. But concerns have been raised about the potential risks they face when accessing the Internet (e.g. giving credit to false information, being exposed to manipulative content). As part of the current debate between positive risk-taking and overprotection, our study empirically tested the extent to which 43 adults with ID identified and selected topically relevant as well as trustworthy web pages while searching the Internet for several topics (e.g. Can socialnetworks use your pictures for advertisement?). Participants also justified their search decisions. Results revealed that while searching familiar topics (i.e. social networks), participants selected more relevant and trustworthy pages than irrelevant and less trustworthy ones. Searches of less familiar topics (i.e. daily health), were carried out randomly, that is, without applying a specific criterion. Results point to the importance of topic familiarity on people's with ID performance on Internet searching tasks. This pattern of results suggests that, first, we should avoid overprotection when people with ID search for familiar topics and, second, they need more support when searching for information about less familiar topics.

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“…Health information on websites is frequently not standardized and may be of poor quality or false. Moreover, such persons are more susceptible to victimization on social media and are more likely to be victims of cyberbullying due to communication impairment and social isolation [50]. Another problem is that some applications use sensitive data and use it for commercial purposes.…”

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Telemedicine Treatment and Care for Patients with Intellectual Disability

Krysta

Romańczyk

Diefenbacher

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IJERPH

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In recent years, telemedicine has been developing very dynamically. The development of new technologies allows their use in the treatment of dermatological, cardiological, endocrine and other diseases. However, there are few reports on the use of digital technologies in the mental health care of people with intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disability is a disease that affects a large number of people. Patients suffering from intellectual disability encounter barriers that make it difficult for them to fully use telemedicine, however, these barriers can be overcome with appropriate support and adaptation. A review of the literature on telemedicine solutions in the care of people with intellectual disabilities indicates that the applications support the communication of these people with the doctor, enable simple behavioral interventions, stimulate cooperation in treatment, provide simple medical education as well as record medical data for the doctor. The authors present the potential risks related to the use of telemedicine solutions for people with intellectual disabilities as well as the project of creating a new, multi-module telemedicine system.

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Internet use and online safety in adults with Williams syndrome

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

Digital participation? Internet use among adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities: A comparative study

Digital participation? Internet use among adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities: A comparative study

Selection and evaluation of Internet information by adults with intellectual disabilities

Telemedicine Treatment and Care for Patients with Intellectual Disability

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