Promoting humour in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

<p>Lately researchers have shown the importance of humour and its relation to personal well-being and health. The present work deals with the humour of people with intellectual and developmental. One of the objectives of the article is to examine to what extent the humorous reading material intended for a general population with an 11-12 year-old’s reading level is appropriate and useful for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The second purpose of the article is to analyze whether García-Larrauri’s Multidimensional Sense of Humor Model (2006) can be applied to the present investigation’s population and to reveal their preferences between two different reading materials: “only text” or “text with illustrations”.<br />The results indicate that people with intellectual disabilities develop experiences of humour that can be used to enhance their quality of life. A good way to promote this process is using the popular literature of humour adapting it into simple texts and / or accompanying it with drawings.