Abstract
BACKGROUND: People with intellectual disability in Chile face individual and collective barriers to social participation. Lack of knowledge about their rights and tools for effective self-advocacy seem to be key elements that need to be improved to facilitate participation.
METHOD: We present PaísDI, a 16 h long manualised program created by self-advocates in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, with four modules: rights and intellectual disability, leadership in intellectual disability, effective communication and financial considerations of social projects. This quasi-experimental study had 349 participants, divided in three groups: people with intellectual disability, relatives and professionals. Feasibility and effectiveness where measured.
RESULTS: The program is shown to be viable and effective, especially in its impact on self-perception for self-advocacy activities.
CONCLUSION: The discussion highlights Chile's historic debt in creating policies that promote self-determination, knowledge and the empowerment of people with intellectual disability, to bolster their participation as citizens.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 633-638 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 17 Oct 2021 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was funded by Servicio Nacional de la Discapacidad (SENADIS), Gobierno de Chile under Project 3208‐2018; and supported by the ANID Millennium Science Initiative Program Code ICS2019_024.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Keywords
- South America
- advocacy
- empowerment
- intellectual disability
- rights
- self-advocacy