Transcription of LIFE SPAN AND DISABILITY
1 life span AND DISABILITYLIFE span AND DISABILITYJ ournal promoted by theDepartment of PsychologyInstitute for Research on Mental Retardationand Brain Ageing Oasi Maria SS. - Troina Psychology Social issuesEducationRehabilitationHabilitatio n Personality profiles of dyslexic children: astudy with the Big Five Questionnaire Persons with multiple disabilities exercise adaptive head responses with the support of microswitch-aided programs Imagined contact favors humanization of in-dividuals with intellectual disabilities:a two-wave study The Expressed Emotion of mothers of chil- dren with Fragile X Syndrome Mental Imagery.
2 Rehabilitation through Simulation Italian and American progress toward In-clusive Education: common concerns and future directionsLIFE span AND DISABILITYVol. XVII / n. 1 /January - June 2014 Vol. XVII / n. 1 / January - June 2014 ISSN 2035-5963 Psychology Social issuesEducationRehabilitationHabilitatio nCOVER life span_eng_COVER life 02/06/14 17:48 Pagina 1 life span AND DISABILITYP sychology, Social issues, Education, Rehabilitation, HabilitationPromotes interdisciplinary research about psychological, social, educational, rehabilitative and neuro psy-chological aspects of the human life span .
3 The aim is to give diffusion to the scientific studies of persons whohave to cope with cognitive and emotional and interpersonal problems for transient or persistent reasons in the different periods of the life , when specific existential events ( , adolescence, lost of work, retire-ment, end of fertility, normal and pathological aging) could cause disease or actual DISABILITY . The neuropsy-chological and social aspects of Intellectual DISABILITY , and the strategies to enhance the cognitive rehabili-tation and the quality of life of these persons, were a main target in the published studies.
4 The attention isfocused, for the different phases of life and for the specific conditions of disease, on the skills suitable to pro-mote the person s development, fully using all the existing or residual potentialities. The view to considerthese aspects may be in turn educational, social, environmental, but taking into account the connectionswith the bio-psychological bases and/or with the data derived from empirical research. Both quantitativeand qualitative methodological approaches are contributions received are submitted to two members of the scientific committee, for a blind peer-re-view o i s s u e s p e r y e a r w i l l b e e d i t e d , i n E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e, a n d p u b l i s h e d o n l i n e o n t h e w e b s i t e w w w.
5 L i f e Each issues will include research contributes, reporting original theoretical, methodological or em-pirical studies; diagnostic or intervention instruments (validation of techniques as tests or grids in the fieldof interest of the Journal); case-reports of clinical or rehabilitative relevance; reviews on specific in chief:Santo Di Nuovo (Catania) / Renzo Vianello (Padova) / Serafino Buono (Troina)International scientific committee: Valeria Abusamra (Buenos Aires) Fredi B chel (Geneva) Gerhard Buettner (Frankfurt) RaquelCasado Mu oz (Burgos) Annick Comblain (Li ge) Vitor Da Fonseca (Lisbon) Larry Dana (NewYo r k ) D o u g l a s K.
6 D e t t e r m a n ( C l e v e l a n d ) M o n i q u e E r n s t ( B e t h e s d a ) R e u v e n Fe u e r s t e i n(Jerusalem) Sebastian Gaigg (London) Carl Haywood (Nashville and New York) Edward Janicki(Chicago) Olga Jerman (Pasadena) Mike Kerr (Wales) Fernando Lezcano Barbero (Burgos) JeanLouis Paour (Provence) Ruth Luckasson (Albuquerque) Mich le Mazzocco (Baltimore) SusanPolirstok (New York) Paul Probst (Hamburg) Johannes Rojahn (Fairfax) Jean Rondal (Li ge) LuisSalvador (Cadiz) Elena Tanti Burlo (Malta) John A.
7 Tsiouris (New York) David Tzuriel (Ramat-Gan,Israel) Henny M J van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk (Maastricht) Benedetto Vitiello (Bethesda) Patricia Walsh (Dublin) Germain Weber (Wien) Karl Wiedl (Osnabr ck)EDITORIAL BOARD:Tommasa Zagaria (coordinator)Maria Teresa Amata / Cinzia Bonforte / Santina Citt / Francesco Di Blasi / BernadettePalmigianoSimonetta Panerai / Fabio Scannella / Marinella Zingale / Rosa ZuccarelloThe English texts have been revised by Philip Doughty Associazione Oasi Maria SS. - IRCCSAll rights reservedNotes for Contributors The Journal will publish original papers (not early published nor in press).
8 Papers submitted for publication should be sent inelectronic format, using one of the versions of Microsoft Word, through the e-mail address indicated below. A supplementaryversion in pdf format (built by means of Acrobat Reader), added to the word file, may be useful to allow a clear vision of theformat foreseen for printing. The most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association(Washington, APA), should be used as the style guide for the preparation of the manuscripts. The first page of the manuscript should give the title, authors' names and affiliations, and the complete mailing address of oneof the authors (included fax number and e-mail address).
9 At least three keywords should be indicated. The abstract should not exceed 200 words. Theoretical aspects, goals and methods, results and a short discussion should beclearly text of the paper should clearly indicate the following sections (example for an empirical paper): 1. Introduction 2. Aims and hypothesis 3. Methods: Sample, Instruments, Procedure4. Data analysis 5. Discussion Tables and Figures should be in a limited number. They should be typed in a separate page, and they should report a descripti-ve title ( : Table 3, Figure III) followed by the legend.
10 Illustrations should be made according to the linked models, and keptmodifiable for an editorial work. The approximate location of figures and tables should be clearly indicated in the point should be used both in the tables and the text. For descriptive statistics, correlations, inferential statistics, etc., twodecimal digits have to be reported. Omit zero before decimal digits when the value cannot be greater than 1 ( , correlationsand significance level) Citations in the text should be indicated with the author's name, year of publication and page number, : Achinstein (1968, ).
