2021
DOI: 10.1177/01626434211004133
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Using Wireless Technology to Support Social Connectedness in Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Focus Group Study

Abstract: Despite the pervasive use of wireless technology in today’s society, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have limited access to technology. Technology is underutilized by this population for a variety of reasons including cost-related barriers and cognitive inaccessibility of devices and software applications. The lack of accessibility of these technologies is concerning, as people with disabilities often rely on technology to enhance independence and social integration. In the presen… Show more

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“…Technology . Prior research has been conducted on technology access barriers in community or home contexts [24,57]. However, access concerns were brought up by many of our participants, so we included this information as a theme to provide further evidence for the need to increase technology communication within the DS community.…”
Section: Barriers In Accessingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Technology . Prior research has been conducted on technology access barriers in community or home contexts [24,57]. However, access concerns were brought up by many of our participants, so we included this information as a theme to provide further evidence for the need to increase technology communication within the DS community.…”
Section: Barriers In Accessingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 47 Low digital literacy was found among certain population groups, such as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 53 …”
Section: Social Integrationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When digital social support interventions were evaluated by participants, negative and positive experiences were reported in seven studies. 23 , 42 , 47 , 49 , 52 54 Negative experiences included: (1) exposure to negative attitudes by other group participants 23 ; (2) concern about how others would use personal health information shared in online groups 42 ; and (3) fear of being stalked, a decrease in human connections, and interaction with false personas through social media. 53 Participants who used a smart speaker noted concerns about the lack of health information and the accuracy of health information.…”
Section: Social Supportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Preliminary research already suggests commercial off-the-shelf DVAs are popular among individuals with disabilities (e.g., (Pradhan et al, 2018;Duffy et al, 2021)), but research is still limited, especially when focusing on concrete disabilities (e.g., (Cave & Bloch, 2021)). However, apart from general socio-economic and skill-related accessibility issues (Paul et al, 2021), children with different kinds of disabilities will experience different kinds of benefits and challenges. For instance, visually impaired children are likely to benefit from the functional advantage of DVAs' hands-free and 'eye-free' voice interfaces, but, at the same time, today's DVAs usually lack the customizability to address certain special needs, such as longer response times, faster speech rates, or custom voice commands (Branham & Mukkath Roy, 2019).…”
Section: Conclusion Limitations and Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, visually impaired children are likely to benefit from the functional advantage of DVAs' hands-free and 'eye-free' voice interfaces, but, at the same time, today's DVAs usually lack the customizability to address certain special needs, such as longer response times, faster speech rates, or custom voice commands (Branham & Mukkath Roy, 2019). Nevertheless, future research should not only consider DVAs as a functional means to a social end for children with disabilities (e.g., by using text-to-speech functions to socially connect with peers online, see (Paul et al, 2021)), but also as a social end in itself (e.g., by serving as a humanlike 'scaffold' to improve social cognition, see (Atherton & Cross, 2018)).…”
Section: Conclusion Limitations and Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%