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Petry, Katja; Maes, Bea; Vlaskamp, Carla – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Because of a shortage of valid instruments to measure the QOL of people with profound multiple disabilities (PMD), the QOL-PMD was developed. In the present study, possibilities for item reduction as well as the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were examined. One hundred and forty-seven informants of people with PMD participated in the…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Quality of Life, Construct Validity, Questionnaires
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M. Lotan; R. Moe-Nilssen; A. E. Ljunggren; L. I. Strand – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Evaluating pain in adults with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) is a challenge. The Non-Communicating Adults Pain Checklist (NCAPC) was recently developed from the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist (NCCPC) and examined in a group of adults with IDD (N = 228) and found to hold satisfactory construct validity, internal…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Allied Health Personnel, Immunization Programs, Caregivers
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Sidener, Tina M.; Shabani, Daniel B.; Carr, James E.; Roland, Jonathan P. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
In order to teach individuals with developmental disabilities to request stimuli they are motivated to obtain (mand), it is often necessary to initially deliver the item requested immediately and frequently. This may result in an undesirably high rate of mands that is impractical to maintain. The purpose of the current investigation was to extend…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Stimuli, Autism, Reinforcement