Tracing the refinement of policy tools for disability rights: a content analysis of how the granting process of state-funded personal assistance in Sweden is aligned with the LSS Act.

Purpose: According to the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (The LSS Act), personal assistance (PA) aims to enhance good living conditions for people with disability. The Act is operationalised by a policy tool, an instruction developed and refined by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) to grant PA. The study explores how this instruction is aligned with the LSS rationale and goals.

A trained communication partner's use of responsive strategies in aided communication with three adults with Rett syndrome: A case report.

Purpose: To explore and describe a trained communication partner's use of responsive strategies in dyadic interaction with adults with Rett syndrome.

Introduction: Responsive partner strategies facilitate social, communicative, and linguistic development. The common feature is that the communication partner responds contingently to the other's focus of attention and interprets their acts as communicative.

Aided language modelling, responsive communication and eye-gaze technology as communication intervention for adults with Rett syndrome: three experimental single case studies.

Purpose: To examine the effect of a communication intervention package on expressive communication and visual attention in individuals with Rett syndrome.

Materials And Methods: A modified withdrawal (A-B1-A1-B2-A2) single case experimental design with a direct inter-subject replication across three participants was applied. Three women with Rett syndrome participated.

Do personal assistance activities promote participation in society for persons with disabilities in Sweden? A five-year longitudinal study.

Purpose: To explore whether the personal assistance (PA) activities provided by the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairment in 2010 and 2015 promote participation in society according to Article 19 of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Methods: Register data and data from two questionnaires were used ( = 2565). Descriptive statistics and chi-square (McNemar's test) were used to describe the basic features of the data.

Development of a tool to assess visual attention in Rett syndrome: a pilot study.

This was a two-phase study that aimed to (a) develop a tool for assessing visual attention in individuals with Rett syndrome using AAC with a communication partner during naturalistic interactions in clinical settings; and (b) explore aspects of the tool's reliability, validity, and utility. The Assessment of Visual Attention in Interaction (AVAI) tool was developed to assess visual attention operationalized as focused gazes (1 s or longer) at the communication partner, an object, and a symbol set. For the study, six video-recorded interactions with nine female participants diagnosed with Rett syndrome (range: 15-52-years-old) were used to calculate intra- and inter-rater agreement, and 18 recorded interactions were analyzed to examine sensitivity to change and acceptability.