Examining the Suitability of the List of Indicators Describing Age-Related Typical Support Needs

Abstract

The list of indicators is a form of training material used for the Supports Intensity Scale—Children’s version (SIS-C). It is aimed at helping interviewers distinguishing between extraordinary and age-related typical support needs in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) when implementing the SIS-C, and thus improve supports planning. The aim of this study is to adapt and test the list of indicators’ content validity and rating scale’s functioning in Spain. A total of 222 general education teachers reported their agreement with each indicator description using a 5-point rating scale. A total of 353 of 366 indicators showed evidence of content validity, whereas analyses on the rating scale highlighted the necessity of subsuming one of the scale categories within another. The need for developing research-based training materials to develop training programs on the use of the SIS-C to support decision-making concerning supports planning with students with IDD, the relevance of using the latest methodological approaches available when required, and future lines of research are discussed.

Diseño para la elaboración los Planes de Apoyos Personales en el ámbito de la discapacidad intelectual

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The Quality of Life Supports Model as a Vehicle for Implementing Rights

“…They are designed to address specific challenges or barriers that a person may face and may require specialized training or expertise to provide (e.g., speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavior support). The provision of generic and specialized supports allows an individualized and comprehensive approach to supporting people with IDD [14,32].…”

The Application of Quality of Life in Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Lines of intervention in Spain and Italy

“…Application of the supports paradigm results in one's ability to assess the pattern and intensity of support needs and using this information for subgroup classification, aligning support needs to support strategies, and identifying and operationalizing systems of support elements (Gómez et al, 2021b). In this sense, AAIDD and INICO have also made an intensive work of development and adaptation of standardized assessment of support needs (e.g., Aguayo et al, 2019;Amor et al, 2021;Claes et al, 2009;Dizdarevic et al, 2020;Thompson et al, 2015Thompson et al, , 2016Verdugo et al, 2020).…”