Internet use, risks and online behaviour: The view of internet users with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers

Chiner, Esther; Gómez‐Puerta, Marcos; Moltó, María Cristina Cardona

doi:10.1111/bld.12192

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“…On one side, specific benefits have been identified for people with ID in their use of the Internet such as social interaction, access to support groups (Molin, Sorbring, and Löfgren-Martenson 2015), self-determination, learning and entertainment (Chadwick et al 2013). The studies show that the device most used by them to access the Internet is the smartphone (Didden et al 2009;Gutiérrez and Martorell 2011) and that the activities they usually do online are watching videos, chatting with friends, or reading and writing on social networks (Chiner, Gómez, and Cardona 2017a).…”

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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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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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“…Access to internet-enabled devices has historically shown higher access to computers than mobile phones among people with intellectual disabilities: 50% have access to a computer and about 20% to a mobile phone (Palmer et al, 2012). However, the digital development is rapid and a recent study of adults with intellectual disabilities showed a higher possession of smartphones, 90%, than computers, 61% (Chiner et al, 2017). The internet is used among people with intellectual disabilities for entertainment (Ramsten et al, 2018) and social contact, but challenges are reported with linguistic skills and handling personal settings for social media use (Shpigelman and Gill, 2014;Shpigelman, 2018).…”

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“…Comparative studies of internet use between people with intellectual disabilities and the general population are required to investigate digital participation and equalities and inequalities, e.g. regarding risks with the internet (Alper and Goggin, 2017;Chiner et al, 2017). To the authors' knowledge, there is only one comparative empirical study focusing on internet use of persons with and without intellectual disabilities (Jenaro 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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“…The devices most used for AR intervention are mobile devices, especially smartphones, due to their price, accessibility and social inclusion in their use. This fact is relevant since several studies have shown that the device most commonly used by people with ID is the smartphone (Didden et al, 2009;Chiner, Gómez & Cardona, 2017;Gutiérrez & Martorell, 2011).…”

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Research review on augmented reality as an educational resource for people with intellectual disabilities

Gómez‐Puerta¹,

Chiner²,

Melero-Pérez³

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Revista INFAD de Psicología

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The present study reviewed nine publications related to the application of augmented reality (AR)-based interventions to people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The lines of research developed focus on the areas of education, personal autonomy and health promotion. The studies are theoretical frameworks, design of AR-based applications, or quasi-experimental study designs without a control group. The samples, all of less than 15 subjects, have been chosen under intentional criteria. The devices that seem to prevail as preferred for its application in this group are the portable ones due to the wide range of intervention possibilities that they offer as well as the development potential of the personal autonomy that they allow. Results offer a positive view of the application of this technology to people with ID, although the characteristics of the studies do not allow yet its generalization. Among the reported benefits are: enhancing learning achievement, motivation and enjoyment of tasks, helping to understand information, enhancing orientation, raising the level of engagement.

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Internet use, risks and online behaviour: The view of internet users with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers

Cited by 73 publications

References 20 publications

Selection and evaluation of Internet information by adults with intellectual disabilities

Selection and evaluation of Internet information by adults with intellectual disabilities

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

Research review on augmented reality as an educational resource for people with intellectual disabilities

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