Disability Research
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Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
- Medicine
Areas of research
- Disability
- Impairment
Research environments
Disability Research is an interdisciplinary field which addresses issues of functional impairments and disabilities from the perspectives of several subjects in the social and behavioural sciences, humanities, medicine, care sciences, natural sciences and technology. In addition to being a theoretical discipline, Disability Research is a field closely related to practitioners and clients. Disability is a complex, relative and interdisciplinary problem area. Research and graduate education in the field of Disability Research has a long tradition at Örebro University (ÖU) and Örebro University Hospital (ÖUH).
Researchers
- Agneta Anderzen-Carlsson
- Susann Arnell
- Mattias Ehn
- Sarah Granberg
- Johanna Gustafsson
- Elin Karlsson
- Susanne Köbler
- Lars-Olov Lundqvist
- Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
- Parivash Ranjbar
- Åsa Skagerstrand
- Georgios Stamatiou
- Moa Wahlqvist
- Stephen Widen
- Erik Witte
- Sofie Adaszak, PhD student
- Andreea Badache, PhD student
- Mattias Bergström Andrén, PhD student
- Iris Elmazoska, PhD student
- Jennie Hjaldahl, PhD student
- Elin Lundin, PhD student
- Ingrid Witte, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- A perceptual and psychosocial analysis of surrounding events from a disability perspective
- Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) - a longitudinal epidemiological study.
- Att känna omvärlden: en perceptuell och psykosocial analys av händelser i omgivningen ur ett handikapperspektiv
- Audio systems in school education
- Cholesteatom - immunologiska aspekter och nytta med kirurgin
- Clinical and genetic studies of Usher Syndrome
- Communicative activity and participation in children with developmental language disorder
- Hearing loss in the working life - a salutogenic perspective
- Hearing-related risk-taking among children and adolescents
- ICF- core sets for hearing loss; validation and operationalization of Brief ICF-Core set for hearing loss into a self-assessment instrument
- Language and literacy in teenagers fitted with cochlear implants or hearing aids: a ten year follow up.
- Listening habits and noise induced hearing loss among adolescents 10-15 years of age. -A longitudinal study
- Newbreed
- Nyttan av cochleaimplantat (CI) hos vuxna - hörsel, livskvalitet och cognition
- Participation in physical activity among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
- People with deafblindness - Health and services during the Covid 19 pandemic
- Ready-ride: A positioning and signalling system to support autonomous riding for the deaf-blind
- Rehabilitation and quality of life among adults with severe hearing loss
- Signs on Pathological Aging - Tests of Cognitive Functioning in Dementia Evaluations among Signing Elderly Deaf People
- Social equality and road safety - a pilot study on disability and Vision Zero for road safety
- Supported Employment and gender - how do sex and gender influence a vocational rehabilitation process for men and women with mental and intellectual disabilities?
- Web-based sentence repetition in children with hearing loss
Completed projects
- "How do we know that it gets better?" Development of indicators for vocational rehabilitation
- A study on severe dual sensory loss in elderly. Identification, diagnosis, prevalence, intervention and rehabilitation
- Academic Network of European Experts in Disability
- Adults with Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). Studies on auditive signal processing and cognition
- Alström syndrome. Studies on cognition and mentalisation
- Alteration in HEaring after Accidental Dural Puncture in parturient, AHEAD study.
- Analysis and reporting of preschool staffs? hearing data and perceptions of the sound environment
- Aspects on learning in Alströms syndrome. Facilitators and barriers for persons with Alström syndrome.
- Assistive hearing devices
- At-risk children in the schools
- Attitudes to people with disabilities and interventions to influence attitudes
- Characteristic of Interaction within Video Relay Interpreting
- Children in need of special support
- Children with visual and other functional impairments from an empowerment perspective
- Children's mental health
- Clinical and genetic studies on hearing and balance in Alström syndrome.
- Cognition and hearing loss
- Collaboration between psychiatry in Stockholm and four neighborhood boards in the city of Stockholm on Coordinated Individual Plan
- Compensation for added costs for people with disabilities
- Cooperation management in the best interests of children and youth
- Cooperation surrounding children and youth in Skärholmen
- Cooperation surrounding pupils with high truancy rates
- Cooperation surrounding victimised or at-risk children
- Development of cognitive ability and reading skills in Deaf children with cochlear implants
- Discrimination against people with disabilities
- Disturbing noise in the everyday environments of hearing aid users
- Employment - work - disability
- Evaluation of collaboration on children at risk: a longitudinal evaluation study
- Gambling and problematic gambling in deaf and hearing impaired young people
- Health and family climate in families where one parent has deafblindness
- Hearing loss and sleep disorders
- Hearing technological assistive devices and its use in schools
- HUSK Education: academic programmes for young people with hearing impairments
- ICF Core Sets for Hearing Loss
- Inclusion in schools of pupils with physical disabilities
- Keeping a job: on people with disabilities in the labour market
- Life-situation for people with neuropsychiatric problems and acquired traumatic brain injury
- New paths to working life
- Opportunities and obstacles to reach the labor market for person with disabilities - an evaluation of 60 projects that received financial support from the Swedish Inheritance Fund in the field of labor, employment and disability from 1994 to 2012
- Otosclerosis in a life perspective, clinical and genetic studies
- Own power! - An evaluation of the Swedish Inheritance Fund's special program Own power!
- People with hearing loss at work: Cognitive abilities, types of work-related sound environments and types of tasks as explanations for self-reported problems
- Persons with Usher type II and working life
- Prevalence of hearing loss and tinnitus in Swedish children, age 7-9
- Problems faced by the hearing impaired persons at their work place
- Radiological inner ear findings in patients with progressive hearing loss after skull injury
- Rehabilitation, occupation and jobs for people with disabilities
- Returning to working life after Acquired Brain Injury
- School Staff's social representations of inclusion of pupils with autism spectrum disorders
- Science-Technology-Society and persons with disabilities
- Scientific evaluation of 10 years work of The Swedish National Expert team for diagnosing of deafblindness
- Scientific evaluation on family experiences of participating in diagnostics by the Swedish National Expert team on diagnosing deafblindness
- Studies in music exposition, hearing loss, and tinnitus in children and adolescents
- Study on listening problems in children
- Study on sound localisation capacity in persons with profound deafness and cochlear implantation
- Supported employment - Sustainable work
- Surveillance medicine and its impact on economic development
- The Deaf position in the labour market
- Transport-related welfare for people with disabilities - a study focusing on visual impairment
- Upper secondary school for persons with intellectual disabilities and transition to working life
- Victimised or at-risk children