Andrés Aparicio

Millennium Institute for Care Research (MICARE) · Research

Stigma is a form of negative social stereotype characterized by a lack of respect toward an individual or a group of people. It is defined as a personal attribute that triggers negative stereotypes, leading to adverse effects on the individuals concerned. This study aims to explore the self‐perceived stigma experienced by adolescents with intellect...

Cognitive assessment is a fundamental step in diagnosing intellectual and developmental disabilities, designing interventions, and evaluating their impact. However, developed and developing countries have different access to tools designed for these purposes. Our goal was to develop a battery for cognitive assessment mediated by digital technology...

Human service organizations faced extraordinary challenges due to COVID-19. Despite the increasing interest and research in this new scenario, there has been limited discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on workers, the challenges they faced, and the resulting stress. This study aimed to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on work-related stress and t...

Este artículo presenta un estudio exploratorio sobre los factores que fortalecen a las cooperativas de cuidado en Uruguay, Argentina y Chile. Estas organizaciones voluntarias se basan en el concepto de "trabajo decente", con el objetivo de brindar soluciones a la formalización laboral, las aspiraciones económicas y la creciente demanda de servicios...

This study assessed the association between Parent-Child Interactions and the development of Adaptive Behaviour, and systematically compared mother-child vs father-child interactions, and toddlers with Down Syndrome versus typically developing ones. 30 toddlers with Down Syndrome and 30 typically developing counterparts paired by developmental age...

Learning to read for children with Down syndrome is relevant because of the impact this ability has on learning and the development of autonomy. Previous research has described reading development in this population, but it is not clear if the process and precursors are the same in a transparent language like Spanish. This study explores performanc...

Research shows that people with intellectual disability (ID) face public stigma. However, a recently published narrative review suggests that this phenomenon has not been explored in a Latin American country. This study fills the gap in our understanding of public stigma towards people with intellectual disability in Chile. 395 adults from the gene...

This research project approaches both questions from the perspective of disability as a complexly embodied phenomenon that provides an epistemological position from which to explore whether the theatrical event, considered as an instance of participatory sense-making bounded by embodied knowledge shared between actors and spectators, may support th...

Background: People with intellectual disability in Chile face individual and collective barriers to social participation. Lack of knowledge about their rights and tools for effective self-advocacy seem to be key elements that need to be improved to facilitate participation. Method: We present PaísDI, a 16 h long manualised program created by selfa...

Background: Given the importance of adaptive behaviour (AB) for the identification of intellectual disability and the design of intervention plans for people with Down syndrome (DS), this cross- sectional study explored AB in infants with DS, compared to infants with typical development (TD). Method: we evaluated 60 infants (10–36 months) with ABAS...

Home Literacy Environment (HLE) plays a fundamental role in the development of reading and writing skills in children. Evidence suggests differences in HLE components based on cultural and idiosyncratic characteristics. Most studies show a relationship between contextual variables with the quality of HLE in typically developing (TD) children. There...

Background: People with intellectual disabilities have been historically excluded from decision-making processes. Previous literature indicates that increasing social participation may be an effective way to address this exclusion, but no systematic review of interventions designed to increase social participation of people with intellectual disa...

Background People with intellectual disabilities have been historically excluded from decision-making processes. Previous literature indicates that social participation may be an effective tool to increase social inclusion, but no systematic review of interventions focused on social participation of people with intellectual disabilities have been c...

Este estudio ofrece un análisis de la evidencia de validez y confiabilidad para el uso de TADI, según los estándares internacionales, en infantes y niños chilenos con síndrome de Down (SD). Participaron 48 niños de Santiago, La Calera y Rancagua, incorporados tras muestreo no-probabilístico, con diagnóstico médico confirmado de SD y sus pares con d...

Presentation given at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2019 Shanghai conference.

‘Acts of remembering’ refer to the conscious cognitive process that facilitates recognition of socioculturally relevant events. This study presents an analysis of the differences and similarities between the morphological characteristics and architecture of Event-Related Potentials associated with the visual recognition of cultural events, by compa...

Background Several studies show that socio‐economic status (SES) is related to the developmental trajectories of children with typical development (TD). However, few studies have analysed this relationship regarding children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as Down syndrome (DS). In this paper, we analyse the impact of SES in the neurodevelop...

Alberto Vega is a Chilean actor, playwright and director who has Locked-In Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by preserved cognition, quadriplegia, aphonia, and, in some cases, some kind of preserved voluntary ocular movement. I started collaborating with him several years ago during the design and implementation of the assistive comm...

In this article we present Audiograph, a web-based auditory graph application that allows users to sonify numerical data directly from a spreadsheet, using Google Sheets. One or more data series can be converted into sound at the same time. Our tool is implemented as an add-on inside Google Sheets using the powerful sound synthesis engine FAUST. We...

Executive functions (EF) are a set of processes that allow individuals to plan, monitor and organize tasks and thus play a key role in the development of reading and maths skills. Environmental factors such as socioeconomic level (SEL) influence reading and maths skills as well as EFs. The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which executi...

In this article, we present an implementation of a brain-computer-musical interface (BCMI), based on the Enobio-8 EEG device, a commercial headset that contains eight or more electrodes and a 3D accelerometer. We have developed Enobio2OSC, a software that receives data from the Enobio via TCP/IP, calculates the appropriate frequency bands, and send...

Practice as research (PaR) is concerned with practice both as a method for inquiry and as evidence of the research process, producing embodied knowledge. It has been proposed that it is the foundational strategy in performative research, a kind of research apart from quantitative and qualitative research, characterized by being expressed using form...

Brain computer interfaces are being widely adopted for music creation and interpretation, and they are becoming a truly new category of musical instruments. Indeed, Miranda has coined the term Brain-computer Musical Interface (BCMI) to refer to this category. There are no "plug-n-play" solutions for a BCMI, these kinds of tools usually require the...

Locked-in syndrome is a condition where a person is unable to move but has preserved cognition. While it is not common, the existence of potential performers with this condition questions the very nature of performing. Most of the time it depends on moving the body: a musician playing her instrument, a dancer swirling through the stage, a live code...

There are actors who cannot move. The question is, can they act? The traditional conception of performing arts would demand an answer in the negative. However, technology provides a way to go beyond the traditional definition and present people with locked-in syndrome or other severe motor impairments with the opportunity to claim a place in the pe...

This paper addresses the problem of anxiety related to traditional assessment, which can affect assessment outcomes and underestimate the performance of subjects. Invisible assessment makes it possible to evaluate subjects without making them feel like they are being evaluated. Invisible evaluation tests were developed for touch screen tablets for...

TENI (Test de Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil) is an instrument developed to assess cognitive abilities in children between 3 and 9 years of age. It is based on a model that incorporates games and technology as tools to improve the assessment of children's capacities. The test was standardized with two Chilean samples of 524 and 82 children li...

Los trastornos severos de la movilidad (TSM) se refieren a un conjunto amplio de patologías en las que se ve comprometida la capacidad de realizar movimien- tos voluntarios, involucrando no sólo la movilidad física, sino que también la comunicación y participación en la comunidad. Los avances médicos han mejorado notablemente las tasas de sobrevida...

Este artículo tiene por objetivo presentar evidencia empírica que demuestra la transformación en las habilidades de rememoración de eventos históricos socio-culturalmente relevantes a lo largo del ciclo vital. Participaron 42 adultos mayores y 22 adultos jóvenes en dos estudios orientados a analizar fluidez y precisión a través de tareas experiment...

Resumen El objetivo de este estudio fue comparar los resultados de WAIS-IV y WISC-IIIv.ch en 30 personas de 16 años estratificadas por nivel socioeducativo (NSE) considerando una aplicación contrabalanceada. Los resultados dan cuenta de una alta correlación entre los indicadores de ambas baterías. Se observaron diferencias significativas entre los...

En Chile escasean los instrumentos de evaluación de aprendizajes para párvulos que cuenten con criterios de confiabilidad y validez y que evalúen aprendizajes esenciales definidos de ese modo por el Ministerio de Educación de Chile. El objetivo de esta investigación es validar una prueba de evaluación de aprendizajes a través del juego llamada dip,...

The goal of this paper is to present empirical evidence supporting the transformation of recall abilities along the life cycle, specifically those tied to socio-culturally relevant historical events. Two groups, 42 old adults and 22 young adults, participated in two studies designed to analyse fluidity and accuracy in experimental tasks. The result...