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Fillary, Rose; Pernice, Regina – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2005
Background: Research evidence suggests that investigation of workplace culture assists in enhancing social inclusion of and job retention by people with intellectual disability. Method: This research explored the potential of using Hagner's (2000) "Workplace Culture Survey" to identify inclusive characteristics of eight New Zealand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Work Environment, Social Integration
Emerson, Eric – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2004
The implementation of policies associated with deinstitutionalisation has dominated the development of services for people with intellectual disabilities in most, although not all, of the world's richer countries (Braddock, Emerson, Felce & Stancliffe, 2001; Hatton, Emerson & Kiernan, 1995). In England, traditional large-scale institutional care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Hospitals, Mental Retardation

Bramston, Paul; Cummins, Robert A. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1998
This study follows the concerns and stresses of four Australian people with mental retardation for five months as they moved out into a community-based supported accommodation. The transition was seen as a positive event which lowered stress, however, other issues gradually re-emerged and their perceived stress level soon rose again. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Independent Living
Vine, Xanthe K. L.; Hamilton, David I. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2005
Background: The purpose of this study was to identify individual characteristics associated with community integration of adults with an intellectual disability. Method: A group of 37 males with high support needs, and who had previously lived in a large institution, participated in the study. Using proxy respondents, data were collected on three…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Daily Living Skills, Age, Mental Retardation
Duquette, Cheryll; Stodel, Emma; Fullarton, Stephanie; Hagglund, Karras – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2006
Background: This study examined persistence in high school among students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) from the perspective of the adolescents themselves. Tinto's (1975, 1997) Student Integration Model (SIM) provided the theoretical framework for the research. This model consists of three factors: background characteristics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence, Environmental Influences, Young Adults

Carnaby, Steven – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1998
Reviews the literature on the social integration of people with intellectual disability. Describes a support model in Italy which views self-esteem as resulting from the social integration of service users as a peer group rather than as individuals, while encouraging independence in the form of paid employment. (DB)
Descriptors: Employment, Foreign Countries, Integrated Services, Mental Retardation

Culham, Andrew; Nind, Melanie – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2003
This paper considers two major movements affecting the lives of people with intellectual disabilities: normalization and inclusion. It reviews the aims, processes, and outcomes of the normalization and social role valorization movement and explores its compatibility with inclusion. Lessons from normalization are applied to the inclusion movement.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Mental Retardation

Pretty, Grace; Rapley, Mark; Bramston, Paul – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2002
A comparison of 14 Australian adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities and 13 typical adolescents found no significant differences between the groups on community usage and lifestyle patterns. The discussion promotes the inclusion of community factors when investigating community integration of adolescents with a disability. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Community Resources, Community Satisfaction