Browsing by Subject "HYP-malli"

Aim: People with severe and profound intellectual disabilities communicate with early communication skills through their life. It is difficult for them to interact with other people in their daily life and that is why they usually end up on the edge of interaction. Usually people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities communicate mainly with staff members. Staff members' abilities and time determine how the interaction will work between the communication partners. The purpose of this study was to find out how the HYP model, developed for supporting interaction, works. The aim was also to find out which are the benefits of the use of HYP model and opportunities for the staff members to support the interactions between them and persons with intellectual disabilities by using the HYP model. The aim of this study is also to produce information that people with intellectual disabilities would get more opportunities for interaction. Methods: This research data were collected in the Communication and Technology Center of the Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Tikoteekki). The data were collected during autumn 2013 and spring 2014 in three different Finnish units where the first trials of the HYP model were accomplished. Participants of this study were staff members and clients. Staff members were altogether 48, 2 to 7 per client. They were, for example, teachers and school assistants. The clients were people with intellectual disabilities and people with autism. The data consisted of different HYP forms, which the staff members had filled in during the HYP periods. These data were analyzed using the Grounded Theory methodology. Results and conclusions: The core category from the data forms through Grounded Theory methodology to be reciprocal interaction. The main categories were cooperation, presence, contact and initiative. The core category collected the whole data and all the different categories together. It was, for example something what the staff members tried to reach during the HYP interaction or it was a wish to achieve with their clients. By using the HYP model the staff members got to know their clients' different interaction styles better. Because of these elements reciprocal interaction was easier to be accomplished during the HYP moments.