The virtual courtroom: a view of justice. Project to prepare witnesses or victims with learning disabilities to give evidence

Cooke, Pamela; Laczny, A.; Brown, David J.; Francik, Jaroslaw

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“…With this end in mind, a virtual courtroom has been developed in conjunction with a group of young people with intellectual disabilities, to enable witnesses to familiarize themselves with the environment and procedures they will encounter during their court appearance. 55 At the time of writing, a systematic evaluation of this application had not yet been completed.…”

Section: Preparation For Court Appearancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Review

Standen

Brown

2005

CyberPsychology & Behavior

206

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Virtual reality (VR) possesses many qualities that give it rehabilitative potential for people with intellectual disabilities, both as an intervention and an assessment. It can provide a safe setting in which to practice skills that might carry too many risks in the real world. Unlike human tutors, computers are infinitely patient and consistent. Virtual worlds can be manipulated in ways the real world cannot be and can convey concepts without the use of language or other symbol systems. Published applications for this client group have all been as rehabilitative interventions. These are described in three groups: promoting skills for independent living, enhancing cognitive performance, and improving social skills. Five groups of studies are reviewed that utilize virtual technology to promote skills for independent living: grocery shopping, preparing food, orientation, road safety, and manufacturing skills. Fears that skills or habits learnt in a virtual setting would not transfer to the real world setting have not been supported by the available evidence, apart from those studies with people with autistic spectrum disorders. Future directions are in the development of more applications for independent living skills, exploring interventions for promoting motor and cognitive skills, and the developments of ecologically valid forms of assessment.

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Section: Preparation For Court Appearancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Review

Standen

Brown

2005

CyberPsychology & Behavior

206

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“…To date, a number of VEs have been used for people with IDD, permitting an examination of the potential of virtual reality and virtual games for teaching life skills, such as route learning (Mengue-Topio et al, 2011), street crossing (Wright & Wolery, 2011), preparation for giving witness evidence in a court of law (Cooke et al, 2002), coping during natural disasters such as earthquakes (Tarnanas & Manos, 2001), shopping (Tam et al, 2005), improving physical fitness (Lotan et al, 2009;, augmenting sensorimotor functioning (Wuang et al, 2011), and increasing cognitive skills, such as assessing sequential time passage (Passig, 2009) and spatial perception (Akhutina et al, 2003). Other researchers have studied the practicality of VEs for social skills training (Parsons & Mitchell, 2002;Standen et al, 1998) and as a medium for leisure activities (Walker & Sylwester, 1998;Yalon-Chamovitz & Weiss, 2008).…”

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Improving Balance in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder via Virtual Environments

Lotan

Weiss

2021

Percept Mot Skills

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Balance problems have been found among 57% of adults with Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD). Moreover, these adults have only partially participated in conventional activity programs. There is a clear need for new interventions that will enhance these individuals’ interest and motivation toward improving their balance skills. Virtual gaming training experiences are a promising prospect in that regard. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of virtual reality games on improving balance for adults with IDD. We recruited 31 individuals with mild-moderate IDD who had fallen at least twice in the year prior to initiating this intervention, and we evaluated these participants using the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test. The participants were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, and only the latter group took part in a series of twelve 30-minute bi-weekly virtual game sessions, designed to improve balance using the SeeMe virtual game system. We found significant (p < .001) pre-post improvements in balance abilities in the experimental group and no significant pre-post change in the control group (p < .77). These data suggest that virtual game technology is a viable tool for improving balance among adults with IDD.

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“…In some jurisdictions, child witnesses (McAuliff & Kovera, 2002) and developmentally disabled witnesses (Cooke, Laczny, Brown, & Francik, 2002) are allowed to have an adult support person present when they testify. Similarly, as a safeguard to protect suspects' rights, in places such as the United Kingdom, vulnerable suspects (e.g., mentally ill suspects and juvenile suspects) must have what is called an appropriate adult present while they are interrogated by the police.…”

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Prospects for remediating juveniles' adjudicative incompetence.

Viljoen¹,

Grisso²

2007

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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With the application of adjudicative competence requirements to adolescent defendants, there is a growing need for interventions to enhance the legal capacities of adolescents who are found to be incompetent. By reviewing developmental, clinical, and educational research, the authors discuss whether it is possible to enhance youths' legal capacities and, if so, what the most promising approaches may be. Psychoeducational interventions for youth are discussed, as well as the possibility of changing the demands of the juvenile justice system to try borderline-competent youth in juvenile court. The authors conclude that there is evidence to believe it may be challenging to enhance youths' legal capacities, particularly when youth have limited rational understanding and/or legal reasoning capacities, and when these deficits stem from developmental immaturity and/or mental retardation. A research agenda is proposed.

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The virtual courtroom: a view of justice. Project to prepare witnesses or victims with learning disabilities to give evidence

Abstract: One of the recommendations in the 'Speaking up for justice' report, suggested that the Home Office develop further material to assist vulnerable witnesses to prepare for their attendance at court. The virtual courtroom provides one of the first and most innovative of such solutions.

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Review

Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Review

Improving Balance in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder via Virtual Environments

Prospects for remediating juveniles' adjudicative incompetence.

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