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Thompson, James R.; Hughes, Carolyn; Schalock, Robert L.; Silverman, Wayne; Tasse, Marc J.; Bryant, Brian; Craig, Ellis M.; Campbell, Edward M. – Mental Retardation, 2002
This paper presents a systematic approach for addressing the support needs of persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and describes a new scale to measure individual differences in support needs. It explains the process used in developing the scale and discusses critical issues and practical challenges associated…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Individual Differences
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Hodapp, Robert M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Describes as advances of the Hauser-Cram et al. study increasing basic information about children with disabilities and their families, showing a combined organismic-contextual developmental perspective, and operationalizing tenets of developmental psychopathology. Considers as limitations: the role of etiology, the need to reconceptualize…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Developmental Disabilities