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Direct linkKeller, Aviva; Weintraub, Naomi – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the leisure and recreation opportunities available in community apartments for adults with intellectual disability (ID), and their association with leisure participation. The study included 38 adults with ID with moderate levels of impairment residing in 19 apartments. Apartment coordinators reported on…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Adults, Participation
Curryer, Bernadette; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Dew, Angela; Wiese, Michele Y. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Increased choice and control is a driving force of current disability policy in Australia for people with disability and their families. Yet little is known of how adults with intellectual disability (ID) actually experience choice and control within their family relationships. We used interpretative phenomenological analysis of individual,…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Intellectual Disability, Adults, Independent Living
Eisenman, David Paul; Bazzano, Alicia; Koniak-Griffin, Deborah; Tseng, Chi-hong; Lewis, Mary-Ann; Lamb, Kerry; Lehrer, Danise – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The authors studied a health promotion program called PM-Prep (Peer-Mentored Prep), which was designed to improve disaster preparedness among adults living independently in the community. PM-Prep consists of four 2-hour classes co-taught by a health educator and peer-mentors. Adults were randomly assigned to an experimental arm or a wait-list…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs
Wilkinson, Joanne; Lauer, Emily; Greenwood, Nechama W.; Freund, Karen M.; Rosen, Amy K. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Though it is widely recognized that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) face significant health disparities, the comprehensive data sets needed for population-level health surveillance of people with IDD are lacking. This paucity of data makes it difficult to track and accurately describe health differences, improvements,…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Access to Health Care, Databases
Ticha, Renata; Lakin, K. Charlie; Larson, Sheryl A.; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Taub, Sarah; Engler, Joshua; Bershadsky, Julie; Moseley, Charles – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
This article examines everyday choices made by 8,892 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and support-related choices made by 6,179 adults with IDD receiving services from 19 state developmental disabilities program agencies that participated in the 2008-2009 National Core Indicators Project. Controlling for physical and…
Descriptors: Adults, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Selection
Woolf, Steve; Woolf, Christine Merman; Oakland, Thomas – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
This study examined relationships between general adaptive behavior and the degree of community independence displayed by 272 adults with intellectual disabilities. Specifically, the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-Second Edition (ABAS-II; Harrison & Oakland, 2003) was completed for each participant and compared with actual levels of work and…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Independent Living
