558 research outputs found
Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities (Tessa Watson, Ed.)
Get PDFThis is a review of the book "Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities" edited by Tessa Watson.
Music Therapy with Adults with Learning DisabilitiesBy Tessa Watson (Editor)East Sussex: Routledge (2007)176 pp, ISBN: 978-0-415-37909-
Book of abstracts (Third BAMT conference 'Music, diversity and wholeness', 16-18 February 2018)
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Adapting care robot Tessa for early-stage dementia with implementation through general practitioners
No full textTessa is a social, assistive robot from the company Tinybots, designed to support people with early- to moderate stage dementia and other mild cognitive impairments.By giving verbal reminders and instructions, programmed by their formal and informal caregivers, Tessa gives people back their self-management and autonomy, enabling them to live independently for a longer period of time. Next to this, Tessa can be used by home care organisations to save physical minutes of care, up to 132 minutes per week (Onderzoek En Ervaringen, n.d.). With the staff shortages in the health care sector and the expected rise of people with dementia from 290,000 in 2021 to 620,000 people in 2050 (Alzheimer Nederland, 2021), the use of e-health solutions like Tessa will become increasingly important.This master thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, a distribution scenario is designed to implement Tessa through GPs, a potential market for Tinybots to target. Currently, Tessa is implemented through home care organisations with the support of their health insurance. From interviews with GPs and their supporting caregivers like POHs and casemanagers, the appropriate scenario was chosen. In this scenario, the general practitioner gives Tessa as an option to their patient and refers them to a home care organisation that implements Tessa. This scenario gives GPs the opportunity to support their dementia patients while maintaining their current role in which they assess the situation and then refer. Due to a limited time per patient, more involvement than that is not feasible. With dementia especially, most care is immediately taken over by the casemanager. Another important factor is the lack of financial support the GP receives. Without this support, affording Tessa is impossible. In home care, there is a higher chance of financial support which is therefore incorporated in the scenario.In the second part, the focus is on acceptance. Acceptance of help and therefore, acceptance of Tessa is hard. To increase acceptance by this group of people, the perceived usefulness of the product needs to be increased, which is what the second part of this thesis focuses on. To do this, multiple solutions were proposed surrounding themes like increasing autonomy, independence, compatibility, social connectedness, and trialability. Adding the functions of listening to audiobooks and receiving personal voice messages will give Tessa a relative advantage over the current products elderly use and increase perceived usefulness and social connectedness.In addition, a light version of Tessa in the form of an app to be used onpeople’s own devices is proposed as a solution to lower the barrier to accepting Tessa. An app is more subtle, is better compatible with the elderly who use their phone or tablet and who are still living an active life. When dementia progresses and home care is needed, the app evolves into an app that can be used by home care to provide care.Since material and logistical costs are saved with an app, a free trial can be offered to potential users. With this, the attribute of trialability is used, which can lead to easier adoption of a new product.In preparation for the launch of the Tessa app version and the new functions, Tinybots needs to prepare a website and information aimed at people with dementia and their informal caregivers instead of care organisations.By implementing these design changes, Tinybots can implement Tessa through the GP with the proposed distribution scenario. This means they can use Tessa to support people with dementia and their informal caregivers from very early on and for a longer period of time.Strategic Product Design | Medisig
Finding the Mark: Designing research training for Music Therapists
No full textTessa Watson is Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy and Programme Convenor for the Arts and Play Therapies at Roehampton University, London,UK. Her clinical work is in adult learning disability at Ealing Hospital, West London. She is Editor of a forthcoming book, ‚Music Therapy With Adults with Learning Disabilities (Routledge 2007). Rachel Darnley-Smith is Programme Convenor and Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy at Roehampton University and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Durham, UK. With Helen Patey, she has co-authored an introductory text, ‚Music Therapy‘ (2003 Sage Publications.) Their presentation was developed as a result of their being awarded a joint ‚Fellowship in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education‘ from Roehampton University for 2005–6.peerReviewedpublishedVersio
Reinstating a consensus of blame:The film adaptation of Tessa de Loo’s De Tweeling (1993) and Dutch memories of wartime
Get PDFJenny Watson (Swansea) investigates Ben Sombogaart’s film Twin Sisters (2002), an adaptation of Tessa de Loo’s best-selling 1994 novel The Twins (De tweeling), which contrasts Dutch and German experiences of the Second World War. By comparing the movie with the novel,Watson assesses how the priorities of heritage cinema led to fundamental plot changes, transforming De Loo’s text, which challenged established narratives of Dutch wartime history, into one that maintains traditional views of the past. The film’s reinstating of a ‘consensus of blame’ is most strongly discernible in the largely missing portrayal of the German wartime experience that played such an important role in the novel, and in the portrayal of the German character Anna, whose culpability is exaggerated by filmic as well as narrative devices. Moreover, the choice to adapt The Twins in the form of a romance emphasises cultural memories of Dutch wartime suffering, and reveals heritage cinema’s dual commitment to presenting an easily digestible view of national history to both national and international audiences
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
EastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing
Get PDFEastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing. Edited by Tessa McWatt, Sam Dodd, and Stephen Maddison.© 2015 All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the author
"Lo sviluppo teologico cristiano dell’idea di tolleranza: a margine di un recente volume di Peter Van Nuffelen"
No full textThe essay proposes a critical reading of the volume “Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité Tardive”, published
by Peter Van Nuffelen in 2018, which collects the results of four conferences given by the author at the École Pratique
des Hautes Études in April of 2013. It is one of the last and most consistent products of current historiographic research
on the subject of late antique religious tolerance. The volume is valued and discussed in its main topics and in its methodological
assumptions, with a critical and constructive dialogic approach. In particular, Van Nuffelen’s main thesis
that assimilates pagan and christian tolerance is questioned in the final disquisition, in which the reasons for dissent
with respect to the model of the author are exposed, identifying the specificity of the Christian attitude in theology of
history and consequently in political theolog
L’autotraduzione nell’opera poetica di Francis Tessa / Francesco Tessarolo
Get PDFThis contribution concerns self-translation in the work of Francis Tessa, an Italo-Belgian author who was born in Rossano Veneto in 1935 (known at the registry office as Francesco Tessarolo) and settled in Wallonia (a French-speaking region in the south of Belgium) in 1952 to join his family, who had emigrated from the Vicenza countryside in the immediate post-war period for economic reasons. In Belgium, Francis Tessa has now established a solid reputation as a French-speaking poet, but he is also a translator from Italian into French and vice versa, as well as a self-translator between these two languages. In particular, this study focuses on a bilingual collection, Dans le tremblement du souffle. Nel tremolio del soffio (1989), which could be defined as a «simultaneous self-translation» (Grutman 2009), since the author states that he carried out the two texts simultaneously in the two languages. The case of Francis Tessa also sheds light on the relationship between self-translation and migratory experience, a relationship in which Vanvolsem (1995) sees a characteristic of some authors of Italian origin writing in Belgium, especially when it comes to poetry
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