Making Activities Meaningful for Students with Severe Multiple Disabilities.

Brown, Fredda; Lehr, Donna H.

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ERIC Number: EJ464058

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Making Activities Meaningful for Students with Severe Multiple Disabilities.

Brown, Fredda; Lehr, Donna H.

Teaching Exceptional Children, v25 n4 p12-16 Sum 1993

This article discusses the importance of social validity and quality of life concerns in identifying meaningful outcomes for the education of students with severe and multiple disabilities. The article stresses the need for outcomes to result in participation in daily routines and in the student's having more meaningful control over personal routines and events. (JDD)

Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities, Normalization (Handicapped), Personal Autonomy, Quality of Life, Severe Disabilities, Student Educational Objectives, Student Participation, Validated Programs, Validity

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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