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A Response to Wehmeyer (1999) and a Challenge to the Field Regarding Self-Determination.
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Baker, Daniel J.; Horner, Robert H.; Sappington, Gary; Ard, William R., Jr. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2000
This article discusses critical components needed to ensure a durable and substantive role for self-determination in the field of developmental disabilities: a conceptually compelling and operational description of self-determination, a reliable assessment method, and documentation that efforts to improve self-determination are associated with…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Children, Disabilities
Assessment of Self-Determination--Negotiating the Minefield: A Response to Baker et al.
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Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2000
This response to a previous article (EC 625 845) on the needs and challenges related to the assessment of self-determination in the field of developmental disability, identifies issues related to the use and abuse of assessing self-determination and suggests an empowerment evaluation approach to these efforts. (Contains four references.)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Children, Disabilities
Program Evaluation in Classrooms for Students with Autism: Student Outcomes and Program Processes.
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Oren, Thomas; Ogletree, Billy T. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2000
This article reviews goal attainment scaling as an alternative method for evaluating treatments for children with autism. It discusses the use of goal attainment scaling as a way to provide a convergent link between outcome goals and program goals within a framework of family-centered practices. A case study is provided. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Accountability, Autism, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education