“…MAU analysis, for example, has been employed within the management sciences for a number of years as a means of structuring decision-making (Bier & Connel, 1994;Carroll & Johnson, 1990;Christenson, 1993;Doyle, 1995;Dyer, Fishburn, Steuer, Walleins & Zionts, 1992;Hanson, Kidwell & Ray, 199 1;Huber, 1974;Keeney & Raiffa, 1976;Pandey & Kengpol, 1995;Poole & DeSanctis, 1990;Samuelson, 1993) and evaluating programme alternatives (Dicker & Dicker, 1991;Edwards & Newman, 1982). It has had extensive use in the private sector and even some use in assessing social programmes, especially in the fields of public health (Alemi, Stephens, Llorens & Orris, 1995;Camasso & Dick, 1993;Kaplan, Atkins & Wilson, 1988;Salazar & de Moor, 1995), social services (Hidalgo-Hardeman, 1993;Kemp & Willetts, 1995;Lewis, Johnson & Mangen, 1998), consumer choice (Kahn & Baron, 1995;Kahn & Meyer, 1991), environmental studies (Brown, 199 1;McDaniels, 1996;Tzeng, Teng & Hu, 199 l), transportation studies (Levine, 1996), education (Levin, 1983;Lewis, 1989;Lewis & Kallsen, 1995) and in the criminal justice system (Edwards, 1980). However, only recently has such a technique been proposed for use in making decisions about programme goals and alternatives in the field of disability studies (Lewis, Johnson, Erickson & Bruininks, 1994;Lewis et al, 1998;Lewis & Johnson, 2000).…”