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Strategies for Organizational Change from Group Homes to Individualized Supports
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Walker, Pam – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Organizations are increasingly looking to convert from facility-based services for adults with developmental disabilities to individualized supports. Such conversion involves not only a change in services but a transformation of organizational culture. This qualitative study involved four organizations that have made sustained efforts to…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Assessing Individual Support Needs to Enhance Personal Outcomes
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van Loon, Jos; Claes, Claudia; Vandevelde, Stijn; Van Hove, Geert; Schalock, Robert L. – Exceptionality, 2010
Education and human service organizations providing services to people with intellectual and closely related developmental disabilities are increasingly being impacted by the supports paradigm, the quality of life concept, and the evaluation of personal outcomes. In this article the authors discuss the relationship among these three areas,…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Needs Assessment, Quality of Life
In Search of Meaningful Daytimes: Case Studies of Community-Based Nonwork Supports
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Sulewski, Jennifer Sullivan – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2010
As of 2004, more than 114,000 individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities in the United States were identified as receiving supports for community-based nonwork (CBNW), that is, activities that do not involve paid employment but do take place in the community rather than that in a facility (Institute for Community Inclusion, 2007).…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Case Studies, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities)
Goal Planning with Developmentally Disabled Persons: Procedures for Developing an Individualized Client Plan.
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Houts, Peter S.; Scott, Robert A. – 1975
Outlined in the workbook are workshops designed for training front-line staff in writing individualized client plans for developmentally disabled persons. It is noted that workshops are taught by audio tape along with an associate instructor in small groups of four to eight individuals. Stressed are four basic goal planning strategies: involving…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Child Education, Goal Orientation, Individualized Programs
Standards for Services for Developmentally Disabled Individuals.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Chicago, IL. – 1978
Provided are standards for agencies and hospitals serving developmentally disabled persons with emphasis on planning and implementing individual programs. The introduction provides information on the establishment of the Accreditation Council for Services for Mentally Retarded and Other Developmentally Disabled Persons and the Joint Commission on…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Agencies, Civil Liberties, Definitions
Goal Planning with Developmentally Disabled Persons: Associate Instructor's Manual.
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Houts, Peter S.; Scott, Robert A. – 1975
Presented is the manual for asscciate instructors of workshops for training front-line staff in goal planning for develoPmentally disabled persons. Outlined are the eight responsibilities of the associate instructor (including contracting participants' supervisors to insure their support); workshop arrangements in such terms as group size,…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Child Education, Goal Orientation, Guides