Promoting humour in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Abstract
Lately researchers have shown the importance of humour and its relation to personal well-being and health. The present work deals with the humour of people with intellectual and developmental. One of the objectives of the article is to examine to what extent the humorous reading material intended for a general population with an 11-12 year-old’s reading level is appropriate and useful for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The second purpose of the article is to analyze whether García-Larrauri’s Multidimensional Sense of Humor Model (2006) can be applied to the present investigation’s population and to reveal their preferences between two different reading materials: “only text” or “text with illustrations”.
The results indicate that people with intellectual disabilities develop experiences of humour that can be used to enhance their quality of life. A good way to promote this process is using the popular literature of humour adapting it into simple texts and / or accompanying it with drawings.
References
Avia, M. D. (1995). Personas felices: las emociones positivas. En M. D. Avia y M. L. Sánchez Bernardos. Personalidad: aspectos cognitivos y sociales. Madrid: Pirámide.
Avia, M. D. y Vázquez, C. (1998). Optimismo inteligente. Madrid: Alianza.
Bruno, R. M.; Johnson, J. M. y Simon, J. (1988). Perception of humor by learning disabled, mildly retarded, and nondisabled. Learning Disabilities Focus, 3 (2), 114-123.
Carbelo, B. (2006). Emociones positivas: humor positivo. Papeles del Psicólogo, 27 (1), 18-30.
Degabriele, J. y Walsh, I.P. (2010). Humour appreciation and comprehension in children with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 54 (6), 525–537.
García-Larrauri, B. (2006). Programa para mejorar el sentido del humor. Madrid: Pirámide.
Paredes, D. (2008). Lista de chequeo / entrevista para detectar la aquiescencia. Documento no publicado.
Paredes, D. (2008). Lista de chequeo/entrevista para comprobar la aptitud de elección en escalas Likert. Documento no publicado.
Paredes, D. (2008). La experiencia del humor en las personas con discapacidad intelectual. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 6 (1), 201-218.
Reddy, V.; Williams, E. y Vaughan, A. (2002). Sharing humour and laughter in autism and Down's syndrome. British Journal of Psychology, 93 (2), 219-241.
St. James, P. J. y Tager-Flusberg, H. (1994). A observational study of humor in autism and Down syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24 (5), 603-617.
Toro, J. y Rodón, M. (1984) TALE Test de aprendizaje de la lectoescritura. Barcelona: Visor.
Vecina, M. L. (2006). Emociones positivas. Papeles del Psicólogo, 27 (1), 9-17.
Wehmeyer, M. et al (2006). Escala ARC. Adaptación española. Madrid: CEPE.
Woodard, C. (2009). Psychometric properties of ASPeCT-DD: measuring positive traits in persons with developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability. 22 (5). 433-444.
As an open access journal, access to the contents of the journal will be free of charge and the property rights are subject to a Creative Commons license. More specifically, the magazine will be licensed under the 'Attribution - Non-Commercial - No Derivative Works (by-nc-nd') license. This license allows free use of the content, but does not allow commercial use of the original work or the generation of derivative works.
