Discusses the growth in Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs and suggests that one means of assisting SSA beneficiaries to reduce dependence is for the SSA to directly or indirectly fund competitive employment initiatives focusing on vocational rehabilitation for individuals who are currently served in nonremunerative day…

Examines aspects of individualism, collectivism, and self-differentiation in 123 African American women attending a predominantly White university. Results reveled that aspects of individualism and collectivism were differentially related to self-differentiation in African American college women. Implications of the findings are discussed.…

Proposes to reexamine the construct of self and its development in Chinese children. Analyzes Chinese children's self-concept in two distinct domains--the domain of learning and the domain of social relations. Demonstrates that Chinese children's self-concept has a strong autonomous component in the context of learning and achievement while…

Shows how present emphasis on patient autonomy overlooks ways in which intimate relations enable autonomy to function meaningfully and how traditional categories of competent and incompetent discount intimacy as tool for accessing patients' subjective experiences. Urges intimate associations to mark moral boundaries for autonomy because they…

The ethics education program for home health aides in New Jersey centers around a casebook focusing on four issues: (1) autonomy and decision making; (2) identification and treatment of clients suspected of being victims of abuse and neglect; (3) decisions to terminate life support; and (4) allocation of limited resources. (SK)

The Center for Autonomous Learning is designed to serve as a creative base for gifted students to learn through independent study, as they choose a topic of interest, determine questions that need to be answered, collect data, complete various activities, present the project to an audience, and have the project evaluated. (JDD)

Three students (aged 14-15) with severe handicaps were trained in independent use of a microcomputer, using a variation of the total task chaining procedure. All students were able to complete all necessary steps for computer use in an average of 16 sessions, thus expanding their available instructional and recreational opportunities. (Author/PB)

Analyzed relationship of Indonesian family migration at or soon after marriage and status of women. Explored determinants (resource control, N=292; childbearing termination, N=274; contraception use, N=229) of decision-making processes with decision-making power variable by method of ordinary-least-squares regression estimations. Found less…

Most research on participation in adult education has focused on participative presence. However, learner involvement and control are far more important in adult education, and this disjunction leads to research findings of little practical value. More interpretive or critical research approaches would yield more valuable results and make…

The relationship between adolescent autonomy and parental stress (PS) for 139 parent-adolescent dyads in a family-oriented educational program was studied via questionnaires. Stress levels were significant for parents of younger adolescents and parents of first-borns. Adolescents' adherence to parental advice and desire for autonomy strongly…

This study, which brought together various perspectives on separation and individuation processes during late adolescence and young adulthood, found significant associations with sex, age, and marital status for the factors of connectedness, competence, and emotional autonomy. Cluster analyses identified several empirically distinct and…

This paper describes a customer-driven approach to supported employment in which people with disabilities are able to exert choice and control. Best practices in supported employment are reviewed and contrasted with practices presently operating. Specific information on how a customer can select a supported employment provider (renamed a community…

Meeting the challenge of providing supported living for people with developmental disabilities calls for new relationships among people receiving support, those providing support, and families. The focus should be on assisting people with developmental disabilities to establish a sense of place, security of place, and effective personalized…

This article suggests ways for group-home employees to support residents in the active expression of their faith while protecting the freedom of others who choose not to be involved in religious activities. The 1992 American Association on Mental Retardation definition of mental retardation is seen as assuming the capability for choice. (Author/DB)

Forms of guardianship for U.S. individuals with disabilities are reviewed, and Swedish legal and public policy innovations that replace guardianship with personal support services, such as mentors and personal assistants, are considered. The impact of Sweden's reforms on autonomy, independence, and integration is addressed. (Author/SW)