Toward understanding and enhancing self-determination: a qualitative exploration with autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disability

Critical information is frequently lost when individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) and co-occurring communication challenges transition from one educational/clinical setting to another. To encourage a seamless transition, speech–language pathologists (SLPs) developed This is Me (TiME), a customizable, digital transition tool designed to help students/patients share personal information and advocate for needed support in their new settings. Researchers conducted a content analysis of 92 TiME transcripts to determine how SLPs used the tool across school and inpatient contexts. Findings indicate the most common content domains included in TiME were personal information (e.g., strengths, hobbies, and preferences) and information about communication, learning styles, and behavior/emotion regulation. While school and inpatient units demonstrated similar patterns of domain use, TiME created in an inpatient context contained more information about behavior plans/supports and were almost twice as long on average. They also included more information about safety and diagnoses/medical needs and less information about self-advocacy strategies than TiME created in school contexts, reflecting the very different settings within which they were created. These findings suggest that TiME offers a solution that can readily be adapted to meet the needs of varied groups of individuals with disabilities as well as different audiences.

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Promoting Social Inclusion and Support of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Sadiki

2024

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies

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Intellectual and developmental disabilities often meet more oppositions than other types of human rights disabilities, largely because if disability was historical viewed as medical model rather than a human rights issues. The concept of social inclusion shifts in the way disability is viewed, a shift from the medical model of disability to a social model of disability. The social model framed disability as a human rights issue, and thus argued that disability rights should be included within the broader set of human rights. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities continue to experience high rates of social isolation. Social inclusion promotes full participation with the community does not necessarily mean people with intellectual developmental disabilities feel integrated within the community or accepted by their peers. It involves making meaningful connections and participation in fulfilling activities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Additional social inclusion remains an important element of well-being for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The formation of countless organisations of people with disabilities organizations (OPDs) around the world effectively amplified the voices of persons with intellectual and development disabilities and worked to promote disability as a human rights concern. Collaboration is significant to expand interaction networks with larger civil society organisations and cross disabilities to advocate social inclusion for all. Social inclusion promoting self-reliance by people with intellectual and development with disabilities. The subsequent policies and conventions that came to force as a result promoting inclusion, set the stage for the formation of the inclusion people with intellectual and development with disabilities.

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Toward understanding and enhancing self-determination: a qualitative exploration with autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disability

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Promoting Social Inclusion and Support of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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