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Chak Li; Meghan M. Burke; Julie Lounds Taylor; Leann S. DaWalt; Zachary Rossetti – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Advocacy has long been heralded as a way to create change for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families. However, without an established measure, it is difficult to accurately characterize advocacy activities. Drawing from extant research, the Advocacy Activities Scale was developed to assess three…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Karrie A. Shogren; Daria Gerasimova; Yves Lachapelle; Dany Lussier-Desrochers; Mayumi Hagiwara; Geneviève Petitpierre; Barbara Fontana-Lana; Filippo Piazza; Yannick Courbois; Agnès Desbiens; Marie-Claire Haelewyck; Hélène Geurts; Jesse R. Pace; Tyler Hicks – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
There is a strong and growing focus on self-determination in French-speaking countries, and this pilot study reports the technical adequacy of the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report (SDI:SR) French Translation. Data were collected with 471 French-speaking youth with and without disabilities in Canada (Quebec), Switzerland, France, and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Self Determination, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Gómez, Laura E.; Morán, M. Lucía; Alcedo, M. Ángeles; Arias, Víctor B.; Verdugo, Miguel-Ángel – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Despite the advances on the assessment of quality of life, this concept is barely studied and is riddled with important limitations for those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This article is aimed at validating a questionnaire to assess quality of life of children with ASD and intellectual disability (ID). Based on the KidsLife Scale, geared…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Children, Adolescents, Autism
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Shaw, Leslie A.; Raley, Sheida K.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Niemiec, Ryan M.; Adkins, Megan – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This article reports the results of an examination of the endorsement, reliability, and factorial validity of the VIA--Youth and assessment of character strengths and virtues developed for the general population in youth with and without intellectual disability. Findings suggest that, generally, youth with intellectual disability endorsed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intellectual Disability, Youth, Measures (Individuals)
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Xu, Tianxi; Qian, Xueqin; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Shogren, Karrie A.; Hagiwara, Mayumi – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study explores the psychometric properties of "Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report" (SDI:SR) in students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and without disabilities in China. The paper-and-pencil version of SDI:SR Chinese Translation (SDI:SR Chinese) was used to explore self-determination across students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Self Determination, Intellectual Disability
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Schalock, Robert L.; Gomez, Laura E.; Verdugo, Miguel A.; Claes, Claudia – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
The purpose of this article is to move the field of intellectual and closely related developmental disabilities (IDD) towards a better understanding of evidence and evidence-based practices. To that end, we discuss (a) different perspectives on and levels of evidence, (b) commonly used evidence-gathering strategies, (c) standards to evaluate…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Data Collection
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Shaw, Leslie A.; Mumbardó-Adam, Cristina – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore the cross-cultural validity of the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report, a newly developed measure of self-determination grounded in Causal Agency Theory. The tool was translated to Spanish and administered to American and Spanish adolescents. The sample was structured to include adolescents with…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Cross Cultural Studies, Intellectual Disability, Validity
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Chiu, Chun-Yu; Seo, Hyojeong; Turnbull, Ann P.; Summer, Jean Ann – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
The Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale is an internationally validated instrument for measuring family outcomes. To revise the scale for better alignment with the Family Quality of Life theory, the authors excluded non-outcome items in this revision. In this study, we examined reliability and validity of the revised scale (i.e., the FQoL…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Quality of Life, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Delays