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Direct linkChak Li; Meghan M. Burke; Julie Lounds Taylor; Leann S. DaWalt; Zachary Rossetti – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Advocacy has long been heralded as a way to create change for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families. However, without an established measure, it is difficult to accurately characterize advocacy activities. Drawing from extant research, the Advocacy Activities Scale was developed to assess three…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Karrie A. Shogren; Daria Gerasimova; Yves Lachapelle; Dany Lussier-Desrochers; Mayumi Hagiwara; Geneviève Petitpierre; Barbara Fontana-Lana; Filippo Piazza; Yannick Courbois; Agnès Desbiens; Marie-Claire Haelewyck; Hélène Geurts; Jesse R. Pace; Tyler Hicks – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
There is a strong and growing focus on self-determination in French-speaking countries, and this pilot study reports the technical adequacy of the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report (SDI:SR) French Translation. Data were collected with 471 French-speaking youth with and without disabilities in Canada (Quebec), Switzerland, France, and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Self Determination, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Gómez, Laura E.; Morán, M. Lucía; Alcedo, M. Ángeles; Arias, Víctor B.; Verdugo, Miguel-Ángel – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Despite the advances on the assessment of quality of life, this concept is barely studied and is riddled with important limitations for those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This article is aimed at validating a questionnaire to assess quality of life of children with ASD and intellectual disability (ID). Based on the KidsLife Scale, geared…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Children, Adolescents, Autism
Shogren, Karrie A.; Shaw, Leslie A.; Raley, Sheida K.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Niemiec, Ryan M.; Adkins, Megan – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This article reports the results of an examination of the endorsement, reliability, and factorial validity of the VIA--Youth and assessment of character strengths and virtues developed for the general population in youth with and without intellectual disability. Findings suggest that, generally, youth with intellectual disability endorsed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intellectual Disability, Youth, Measures (Individuals)
Santos, Sofia; Morato, Pedro; Luckasson, Ruth – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The adaptive behavior construct has gained prominent attention in human services over the last several years in Portugal, and its measurement has become an integral part of the assessment of populations with intellectual disability. In Portugal, diagnosis remains exclusively based on IQ measures, although some attention recently has been given to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Mental Retardation, Adjustment (to Environment)
Symons, Andrew B.; Fish, Reva; McGuigan, Denise; Fox, Jeffery; Akl, Elie A. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
As curricula to improve medical students' attitudes toward people with disabilities are developed, instruments are needed to guide the process and evaluate effectiveness. The authors developed an instrument to measure medical students' attitudes toward people with disabilities. A pilot instrument with 30 items in four sections was administered to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Student Attitudes, Psychometrics
Bellini, James – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2007
This article presents the author's comments on Simon and Lichten's "Defining Mental Retardation: A Matter of Life and Death." Lichten and Simon (2007) argued for the use of a Total Quotient (TQ) that combines existing IQ and adaptive functioning scores into a single index. They proposed that the TQ index will improve the accuracy of mental…
Descriptors: Scores, Mental Retardation, Intelligence Quotient, Classification
