Branislav Brojčin

Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation University of Belgrade

Introduction Pragmatics includes a set of skills related to language structure and meaning that allow the speaker to use the language appropriately and in accordance with different communication situations. The aim of this research was to determine the differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities, dual diag...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is often accompanied by various co-morbid conditions, among other things, thyroid diseases. One of the frequently used diagnostic methods to determine the appearance and function of the thyroid gland is scintigraphy. Although thyroid scintigraphy is routinely performed at Clinics for Nuclear Medicine, pr...

The Internet has a significant role in communication, learning, entertainment, keeping informed, and other aspects of modern life. However, along with the development of digital technologies and the Internet expansion, various forms of its problematic use have emerged, especially among children and adolescents. People with autism spectrum disorder...

The development of inclusive education shifts the focus of education for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to teaching standards-based academic skills. With regard to conceptual skills, digital technologies are most commonly used in communication skills. Specialized literacy programs most frequently rely on sight word recognition and the...

People with autism have more difficulty finding and keeping a job, not only compared to the typically developing population but also adults with different types of disabilities. In the attempt to improve the quality of existing support services in job-related activities, various digital technologies have been used in vocational rehabilitation and s...

Community living involves participating in numerous activities and can be achieved in different ways regarding independence and the level of engagement. People with ASD are usually unable to move independently, have difficulties establishing interpersonal relations, and use available services to a lesser extent. This chapter presents the results of...

Daily living skills (DLS) are routine activities that provide independence at home, in a community, at school, or at work. Many people with autism have difficulties with DLS, which limits their self-confidence and can negatively affect their overall quality of life. The main goal of teaching DLS is to help a person become more independent, thus pro...

At the very beginning of the digital revolution, differences in the access to digital technologies were noticed between people of different genders, social status, age, etc. As information and communications technology was spreading, it became clear that the digital divide concept was changing. The second generation of research in this area focused...

Unlike traditional design methods in which professionals require prospective users to give their opinion on the finished product, participatory design (PD) sees users as collaborators and co-designers whose daily life experiences truly contribute to the product conceptualization and development. This design approach is especially valuable for socia...

Technological development, especially Internet discovery, caused changes in the conceptualization of leisure time, its organization, and related experiences. Although numerous studies point out the importance of leisure activities for the quality of life in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), their socio-emotional cognition, reduction of in...

Self-advocacy is a phenomenon in which autistic people (according to the recommendations of the autistic self-advocacy community, we will use identity-first language instead of person-first language in this chapter) speak up on behalf of themselves or the group they belong to. The Internet has provided autistic people with voice, visibility, and th...

Numerous medical conditions are significantly more common in people with autism than their typically developing peers. Many research studies deal with applying different technologies in achieving the appropriate compliance of autistic people with medical interventions. An important step in the systematic desensitization of people with autism is lea...

Technology-aided instruction and intervention involve using any electronic devices, equipment, applications, or networks to improve or maintain specific skills. Over the last few years, this group of interventions has advanced in terms of scientific basis, i.e., from the emerging level of evidence to evidence-based practices. Technology-aided instr...

Циљ библиотерапије је пружање помоћи читаоцу да кроз књигу разуме и преброди потешкоће са којима се сусреће. Она се може примењивати у различитим контекстима. Уколико се примењује у школском окружењу, говоримо о развојној библиотерапији. Циљ овог рада је да се опишу основне фазе развојне библиотерапије, представе резултати истраживања који указују...

Uvod: Učenicima sa intelektualnom ometenošću je često potrebna podrška u razvoju socijalnih veština. Stoga je važno sagledati nastavničku perspekti- vu u pogledu značaja pojedinih socijalnih veština za uspešno funkcionisanje učenika. Cilj: Cilj rada je da se utvrdi koliki značaj nastavnici pridaju asertivnosti, ko- operativnosti i samokontroli u u...

Parental involvement (PI) in education contributes to numerous positive outcomes in children, including educational outcomes and social competence. The goal of the present study was to examine differences in PI mechanisms between parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and parents of typically developing (TD) children. An additional...

Introduction. The inclusion of students with disabilities in higher education is a fundamental right recognised by the legal system since its recognition in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, the measures adopted by European countries to promote their incorporation are not always accompanied by parall...

Eholalija je relativno čest simptom poremećaja iz spektra autizma. Ispoljava se kao trenutno ili odloženo ponavljanje tuđih reči i najčešće se dovodi u vezu sa nedovoljno razvijenom sposobnošću receptivnog govora. Isto tako je u znakovnom jeziku gluve dece s poremećajem iz spektra autizma zabeležena pojava tzv. znakovne eholalije. Cilj ovog članka...

Introduction. The inclusion of students with disabilities in higher education is a fundamental right recognised by the legal system since its recognition in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, the measures adopted by European countries to promote their incorporation are not always accompanied by parall...

Accessible summary • The aim of this research was to identify possible differences in how non‐disabled adolescents and their peers identified with mild intellectual disability use mobile phones. • The sample comprised 420 non‐disabled participants and 67 participants identified with mild intellectual disability. • Non‐disabled adolescents used the...

Introduction: Aggressive behaviour is not the main symptom of autism spectrum disorders, and if it occurs in this population, it is a consequence of some other factors. Objectives: With regard to that, the aim of this paper is to determine to what extent certain aspects of executive functions, severity of autism, sleep habits, and parenting actions...

This study was conducted with the aim to determine the frequency and predictors of problematic mobile phone use in adolescents with mild intellectual disability (MID) and typically developing adolescents (TDA). The sample included 623 TDA and 67 adolescents with MID. The Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale, Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Scale, a...

Digital literacy and access to web content is no longer just a luxury, for a privileged few, it is a the necessity for everyone. The evolution of society has led us to new paradigms of socialization, education and work, now based on the global Internet network. Those who don’t know, those who don’t surf, those who don’t communicate through the Inte...

English language teachers sometimes face a difficult dilemma when teaching learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN). On the one hand, they believe that each person should have the possibility of learning different languages, but on the other hand, they realize that they may not have the necessary skills to accommodate their course to these SEN...

Gestures are ritualized movements of pointing, giving things and showing direction. References show that gender and age can be significant factors in gesture production and understanding in persons of typical development. The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a difference between the ability to understand, produce, and imitate gest...

Although learning a foreign language is often not a simple process for adults with intellectual disabilities, the authors agree that the process should not be abandoned, and that it needs to be adapted and facilitated in accordance with individual characteristics and the characteristics of the trainee. The aim of this research is to determine wheth...

Intellectual disability is ofen accompanied by associated psychiatric disorders. Te presence of psychiatric symptomatology adversely afects daily functioning of persons with intellectual disability. Te pragmatic ability is composed of several diferent skills that enable a person to integrate information during the conversation, as well as to monito...

Despite the fact that limitations in the use of gestures may persist throughout the life of people with autism spectrum disorder, by reviewing the available literature, we have gained the impression that this issue has been insufficiently researched when it comes to school-age children. Therefore, in this study we set a dual objective. First, we wa...

This research was conducted in order to identify the differences between participants with Down syndrome who operate at the level of moderate intellectual disability and participants with moderate intellectual disability of unknown etiology in different aspects of pragmatic skills. The sample included 35 adult participants with moderate intellectua...

Examining attitudes towards people with disabilities has been a field of interest of numerous authors in recent years. Accordingly, different scales for measuring attitudes have been used, both at social and personal level. Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale is the most widely used scale for measuring attitudes at personal level . It is design...

Introduction/Aim. The ability to comprehend and produce irony and deception is rarely explored in people with intellectual disability (ID) or dual diagnoses (DD). The ability to understand irony and deception appears to be related to many cognitive skills, but some authors point out that the theory of mind is one of the most important factors for t...

The aim of this paper is to determine the relationship between the ability to recognize emotions and internalized behavioral problems in people with mild intellectual disabilities. The sample consisted of 70 persons with mild intellectual disability, equalized by gender (χ² = .000; df = 1; p = 1.000) and age (χ² = 1.429; df = 1; p = .232). For the...

Sposobnost prepoznavanja emocija pomaže osobama da razumeju socijalne situacije i da planiraju sopstveno ponašanje u određenim društvenim kontekstima. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da na sposobnost prepoznavanja emocija kod osoba sa intelektualnom ometenošću mogu uticati kognitivna i govorno-jezička postignuća ispitanika, starosna dob, tip ispiti...

The ability to recognize emotions helps people understand social situations and plan their own behavior in specific social contexts. Paralinguistic segments of communication (facial expression and prosodic characteristics) significantly contribute to drawing conclusions on the speaker’s emotions, and according to some authors, they are considered e...

Intrusive thoughts are repetitive, unwanted and unacceptable thoughts, images or impulses that occur both in general and in clinical populations. As far as we know, there are no studies focusing on relation between the theory of mind and intrusive thoughts in persons with intellectual disabilities, but there are sporadic studies in other clinical s...

Facial expressions and prosodic acoustic characteristics jointly present paralinguistic features of communication. By analyzing literature, we observe that respondents with intellectual disabilities manifest emphasized difficulties in detecting emotions in tasks of facial and vocal expression. However, we do not know if there are data on how parali...

EXTRALINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNICATION-PRAGMATIC ABILITIES OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES Mirjana Đorđević, Nenad Glumbić, & Branislav Brojčin University of Belgrade – Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Serbia Abstract Extralinguisticsigns are characterized by the movement of body parts or body in whole. Using these s...

Pragmatic competence means the use of language in social context. Persons with intellectual disability experience numerous problems in this aspect of communication, but they are relatively pragmatically skilled in well-known situations, in which they are not subjected to significant cognitive and social requirements. The aim of this paper is to det...

Bearing in mind that the wrong identification and interpretation of emotional expressions are associated with problems in social behavior, the aim of this study is to determine the most common errors that occur in identifying the primary emotions in communication in adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses. The sample consisted of 1...

The aim of this research was to determine the ability level of paralinguistic production and comprehension in adults with intellectual disability (ID) with regard to the level of their intellectual functioning and presence of co-morbid psychiatric conditions or dual diagnosis (DD). The sample consisted of 120 participants of both genders, ranging i...

THE ABILITY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION SUBJECT AND ADEQUATE WORD ACQUISITION IN ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES Mirjana Đorđević, Nenad Glumbić, Branislav Brojčin University of Belgrade – Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Serbia Abstract Conversation is s structured activity in which participants meet certain standards. Within th...

Intrusive thoughts represent the cognitive construct which is manifested through internal, repetitive, unwanted and unacceptable thoughts, images or impulses. Intrusive thoughts may be present both in clinical and general population. Usual intrusive thoughts that occur in typical population can turn into pathological and lead to the occurrence of p...

In line with the change of the society attitudes towards persons with disabilities there is increased interest in examining the atitudes twards them. Because of the role in the treatment, education and inclusion of such persons in wider social community, the attitudes of the students of special education become especially relevant. The aim of the r...

Persons with severe and profound intellectual disability (ID) have a wide range of difficulties. A number of difficulties, along with a delay in speech and language development, can greatly interfere with successful communication with others. For these individuals, the presence of potential communication partners does not always guarantee successfu...

The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes of preschool, primary, secondary and high school teachers towards inclusive education of children with special educational needs. In addition, the study established the correlation between these attitudes and gender, education level, teaching experience, formal training in the special education fie...

Uvod. Postoji veliko interesovanje za ispitivanje stavova prema osobama saometenošću. Stavovi odražavaju našu predispoziciju da se prema određenimdruštvenim grupama ponašamo na stereotipan i predvidljiv način.Metode. Istraživanjem je obuhvaćeno 359 studenata Medicinskog fakultetau Foči, koji pohađaju dva studijska programa: studijski program Medici...

Theory of mind is the ability to attribute mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions and emotions) to self and others, in order to predict and explain observable behavior. The development of these abilities, which are essential for successful social interactions, social responsiveness and harmonious relations in everyday life, is delayed...

Many of the authors agree with the statement that the facial expression and prosodic acoustic characteristics together represent the paralinguistic characteristics of communication and that they provide an answer to the question "How something is said?" Some of the functions of paralinguistic elements of communication include the ability to make a...

Autistic symptoms are usually present in early childhood, although, in some cases they may not be fully manifested until much later. Recognition of the early signs of autism is a necessary prerequisite for early intervention programs, which should promote positive outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders. The purpose of this article is...

Keeping in mind that traditional tests were largely insensitive to pragmatic impairment, Bishop (2003) created a second version of the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC-2) in order to identify pragmatic deficits in children with communication problems. Unfortunately, it was revealed that certain subscales of the Serbian version of the CCC-2 h...

Mood disorders are very frequent affective symptoms often found in children with disabilities. Even the nonclinical depression or depressive mood in children are characterized by social withdrawal and decline in self-confidence, anger or auto-destructive behavior, as well as decrease in academic achievement. The objective of this research is to det...

This work is an attempt to review the literature and identify the key findings about the forms of psychological work needed for persons suffering from intellectual disability (ID) regarding their availability and efficiency. Though frequency of mental disturbances among persons with ID is greater than among general population, psychological interve...

Cooperative teaching has been defined as a reconstruction of educational procedures in which two or more educators, in co-active and coordinated manner, use different sets of instructional techniques in order to jointly teach academically and behaviourally diverse groups of students in an integrated educational setting. The aim of this paper is to...

Aim Autistic communication profile in children who speak in sentences is characterized by significant deficits in social relationships and restricted interests coupled with low general communication ability. The objective of this research is to determine autistic communication profile in children with sub average intellectual functioning. Method T...