Title

Contribution of a post-secondary academic enrichment program on cognitive abilities of adults with severe intellectual disability using an e-book.

Authors

Lifshitz, Hefziba; Posner, Shira; Shnitzer-Meirovich, Shlomit

Abstract

We investigated the impact of participation in post-secondary university education (PSE) on the academic knowledge of adult students with severe intellectual disability and extensive support needs (SIDESN) vs. a similar group of controls who did not participate in PSE. We also examined whether the PSE would result in a "near transfer" to basic crystallized (facts and information) and fluid (problems involving executive functions and working memory) cognitive abilities, the contribution of background characteristics and crystallized and fluid abilities to their academic knowledge, semantic fluency and temporal relations.

Publication

Research in developmental disabilities, 2025, Vol 158, p104921

ISSN

1873-3379

Publication type

Journal Article

DOI

10.1016/j.ridd.2025.104921