Disability Research
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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
- Patrik Arvidsson
- Mattias Ehn
- Sarah Granberg
- Johanna Gustafsson
- Elin Karlsson
- Susanne Köbler
- Lars-Olov Lundqvist
- Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
- Åsa Skagerstrand
- Georgios Stamatiou
- Helena Stålnacke
- Moa Wahlqvist
- Stephen Widen
- Erik Witte
- Sofie Adaszak, PhD student
- Andreea Badache, PhD student
- Mattias Bergström Andrén, PhD student
- Sara Båsjö, PhD student
- Camilla Börjesson, PhD student
- Iris Elmazoska, PhD student
- Jennie Hjaldahl, PhD student
- Evelina Karvonen, PhD student
- Elin Lundin, PhD student
- Ingrid Witte, PhD student
Research groups
- Deafblindness - from a multi-diciplinary research perspective
- Disability - Society
- Interdisciplinary Research in Clinical Audiology (IRCA)
- ReShape - Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education
- SAFe - The Social Services' Work with People with Disability
- Speak up
- Time management skills in people with cognitive limitations (TOVA)
Research projects
Active projects
- Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) - a longitudinal epidemiological study.
- Audio systems in school education
- Cholesteatom - immunologiska aspekter och nytta med kirurgin
- Communicative activity and participation in children with developmental language disorder
- DIALOGUE: Dialogue support for the social service's assessment of risk for violence in close relationships
- Hearing loss in the working life - a salutogenic perspective
- Hearing-related risk-taking among children and adolescents
- Implementation of IPS within the psychosis care
- Improved Strategies and Tools in Hearing Assessment and Rehabilitation (I HeAR)
- 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
- 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?
- VISA: Violence In close relationships and the Social service's Adapted work
- Web-based sentence repetition in children with hearing loss
Completed projects
- 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.
- Aspects on learning in Alströms syndrome. Facilitators and barriers for persons with Alström syndrome.
- Clinical and genetic studies on hearing and balance in Alström syndrome.
- Compensation for added costs for people with disabilities
- Cooperation surrounding children and youth in Skärholmen
- Cooperation surrounding pupils with high truancy rates
- Disturbing noise in the everyday environments of hearing aid users
- Elderly with severe dual sensory loss. Prevalence, etiology and intervention
- 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
- ICF Core Sets for Hearing Loss
- ICF- core sets for hearing loss; validation and operationalization of Brief ICF-Core set for hearing loss into a self-assessment instrument
- 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
- Pilot study of "Let's Get Organized" - a group intervention to improve time management skills
- 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
- 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
- Supported employment - Sustainable work
- 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
- Work and health in persons with Usher syndrome