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“Ready to take on the world”: Experiences and understandings of independence after attending residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities

Amy C. McPhersonBloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Alanna RudzikBloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Shauna KingsnorthBloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Gillian KingBloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Jan Willem GorterCanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-2119View further author information
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Andrea MorrisonChildren's Developmental Rehabilitation Program McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
Pages 73-82 | Received 13 Jul 2015, Accepted 08 Jan 2016, Published online: 22 Mar 2016

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Yani Hamdani, Revi Bonder & Amy C. McPherson. (2023) Wellness in children’s rehabilitation – what does it mean?. Disability and Rehabilitation 45:25, pages 4236-4244.
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Sarah Myers, Fiona Elliot, Sabine Maguire & Michelle Barber. (2023) Improving Social-Emotional and Life Skills of Young People with Complex Additional Needs Through ‘Outward Bound’ Residential Trips. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 70:6, pages 1052-1071.
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Gillian King, Shauna Kingsnorth, Amy C. McPherson & Diana Tajik-Parvinchi. (2023) Autonomy, self-realization, and psychological empowerment: a prospective mixed methods study of the effects of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation 0:0, pages 1-11.
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Mette Miklos, Reidun Jahnsen, Astrid Nyquist & Anna Ullenhag. (2022) How transactional relations contribute to adaptive developmental outcomes when young people with disabilities participate in specially designed group programs − a scoping review. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 29:8, pages 670-685.
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Gillian King, Laura R. Hartman, Amy C. McPherson, Andrea DeFinney, Barbara Kehl, Alanna Rudzik & Andrea Morrison. (2022) Exploring the after-hours social experiences of youth with disabilities in residential immersive life skills programs: a photo elicitation study. Disability and Rehabilitation 44:13, pages 3104-3112.
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Mette Miklos, Reidun Jahnsen, Astrid Nyquist, Halvor Hanisch & Sonya Girdler. (2022) “Here we are together, at home you are alone” – social interactions and personal engagement during a group-based rehabilitation program for young adults with disability. Disability and Rehabilitation 44:9, pages 1631-1641.
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Gillian King, Amy C. McPherson, Shauna Kingsnorth, Jan Willem Gorter, Lisa Avery & Alanna Rudzik. (2021) Opportunities, experiences, and outcomes of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation 43:19, pages 2758-2768.
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Celeste Duff, Amy C McPherson & Gillian King. (2020) Residential Immersive Life Skills Programs: A Catalyst for Facilitating Emotional Literacy Development for Youth with Disabilities. Developmental Neurorehabilitation 23:5, pages 294-301.
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Cristobal Rodolfo Guerra-Tamez. (2023) The Impact of Immersion through Virtual Reality in the Learning Experiences of Art and Design Students: The Mediating Effect of the Flow Experience. Education Sciences 13:2, pages 185.
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Gillian King, Amy C. McPherson, Shauna Kingsnorth & Jan Willem Gorter. (2022) The Transformative Nature of Residential Immersive Life Skills Programs: Integrating Findings from a Five-Year Prospective Study of Program Opportunities, Youth Experiences, and Outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:23, pages 15865.
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Michelle W. T. Cheng. (2022) Photovoice: towards an inclusive student selection in university residential community. SN Social Sciences 2:9.
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Georgia Barnett, Daniel Boduszek & Dominic Willmott. (2021) What works to change identity? A rapid evidence assessment of interventions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 51:7, pages 698-719.
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Gillian King, Shauna Kingsnorth, Andrea Morrison, Jan Willem Gorter, Andrea DeFinney & Barbara Kehl. (2021) Parents’ perceptions of the foundational and emergent benefits of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities 110, pages 103857.
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Nora Shields, Claire Willis, Christine Imms, Luke A Prendergast, Jennifer J Watts, Ben van Dorsselaer, Georgia McKenzie, Andrea M Bruder & Nicholas F Taylor. (2020) FitSkills: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-based exercise programme to increase participation among young people with disability. BMJ Open 10:7, pages e037153.
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Celeste Duff, Amy C McPherson, Gillian King & Shauna Kingsnorth. (2019) Deconstructing residential immersive life skills programming through a pedagogical lens: mechanisms that can facilitate learning for youth with disabilities. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs 20:2, pages 121-129.
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Shauna Kingsnorth, Alanna E. F. Rudzik, Gillian King & Amy C. McPherson. (2019) Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: a case study of youth developmental trajectories of personal growth and caregiver perspectives. BMC Pediatrics 19:1.
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Celeste Duff, Gillian King, Amy C. McPherson, Shauna Kingsnorth & Alanna E.F. Rudzik. (2019) Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: Experiences of parents and shifts in parenting approaches. Journal of Adolescence 77:1, pages 139-146.
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Gillian King, Amy McPherson, Donya Mosleh, Laura Hartman, Jesiqua Rapley & Madhu Pinto. (2018) Program opportunities of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities 83, pages 233-246.
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M. Tanya Mitra, Peter Jönsson, Ann-Charlotte Åkerblad, Peter Clayton, Maria Kołtowska-Häggström, Márta Korbonits, Andy Toogood & Helena Gleeson. (2017) Social, educational and vocational outcomes in patients with childhood-onset and young-adult-onset growth hormone deficiency. Clinical Endocrinology 86:4, pages 526-533.
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Amy C. McPherson, Gillian King, Alanna Rudzik, Shauna Kingsnorth & Jan Willem Gorter. (2016) Optimizing life success through residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: study protocol of a mixed-methods, prospective, comparative cohort study. BMC Pediatrics 16:1.
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Gillian King, Shauna Kingsnorth, Amy McPherson, Kimberlea Jones-Galley, Madhu Pinto, Melissa Fellin, Natalie Timbrell & Diane Savage. (2016) Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities: A pilot study of program opportunities, intervention strategies, and youth experiences. Research in Developmental Disabilities 55, pages 242-255.
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