A Visual Aid to Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Bailey, Rebecca; Willner, Paul; Dymond, Simon
Titel	A Visual Aid to Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32 (2011) 1, S.37-46 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2010.08.008
Schlagwörter	Mild Mental Retardation; Foreign Countries; Visual Aids; Decision Making; Cognitive Processes; Intervention; Money Management; Thinking Skills; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Anschauungsmaterial; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Denkfähigkeit; Großbritannien
Abstract	Previous studies have shown that people with mild intellectual disabilities have difficulty in "weighing-up" information, defined as integrating information from two different sources for the purpose of reaching a decision. This was demonstrated in two very different procedures, temporal discounting and a scenario-based financial decision-making task. In the present study, both tasks were presented to 24 participants who attended day services for people with learning disabilities (mean Full-Scale IQ = 59.8), half of whom were trained to use a visual aid to support decision-making. Performance of control participants did not change over repeated testing, but use of the visual aid substantially improved the quality of decision-making on both tasks: temporal discounting performance became more orderly, and participants were able to provide more information to justify their decisions in the financial decision-making task. The visual aid also substantially improved participants' ability to justify decisions they made about their own lives. We suggest that, while the visual aid was designed and evaluated as a means of increasing the quality of reasoning that supports a decision, it may also have potential as an aid to therapeutic interventions aimed at encouraging wiser decision-making. (Contains 1 table and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10