Product Description: Outcome-based evaluation continues to play a central role in the larger field of policy analysis and speaks to the needs and interests of administrators, students, policymakers, funders, consumers, and educators. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1995, the author broadens the coverage from his previous emphasis on developmental disabilities to include other areas of human and social service delivery such as education, health, mental health, aging, substance abuse, and corrections...read more

Product Description: In 2005, AAIDD published the first edition of Clinical Judgment to assist clinicians in making decisions or recommendations that were of high quality, valid, and precise. This need was becoming increasingly important as the field of intellectual disability was moving increasingly to a community-based service delivery system in which the concepts of equity, inclusion, self-determination, and empowerment were merging with the supports paradigm and the self-advocacy movement...read more

Product Description: Often asked to make critical life decisions under restricted opportunities for assessment, interviews, and observations, clinicians now have a powerful, new best practices guide with concrete guidelines on how to integrate clinical judgment into their decision-making process...read more

Product Description: La organización de los sistemas de prestación de servicios a personas con discapacidades intelectuales y del desarrollo (DI/DD) por parte del Estado se ha quedado obsoleta. Esta &,quot, Guía de liderazgo &,quot, está diseñada para ayudar a los líderes y gestores de organizaciones y sistemas que atienden a personas DI...read more

Product Description: Habilitation Planning for Adults With Disabilities presents a comprehensive approach to habilitation planning and service delivery for adults with disabilities. This book investigates the increased demands and expectations by adults with disabilities regarding personalized service and quality of life, including independence, productivity, and community integration, and discusses historical and current treatment and trends...read more

Product Description: Everyone wants a life of quality and quality of life initiatives are essential to the efforts of professionals in the intellectual disability field. Simply put, this newbook from well-established quality of life experts helps you determine what quality of life issues are important in a person's life...read more

Product Description: This practical newguide on the 2002 AAIDD definition manual tells clinicians, educators, policymakers, and program managers how to implement the various components of the AAIDD definition system in their specific job settings...read more

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Product Description: Embarking captures the challenging and controversial era between 1975-2000 that led the field of intellectual disability into a new age of community acceptance and inclusion. Includes 18 chapters that focus on three themes: public policy, health care, and clinical careSince 1876, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has been providing worldwide leadership in the field of disabilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is a classic guide to what adaptive behavior is and its role in defining the condition of mental retardation as seen from a functional, supports-oriented perspective defined in the 1992 definition manual of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Formerly AAMR)...read more

Product Description: This exciting and timely book takes stock of the integrated employment movement over the last 15 years, evaluates the results to date, and considers future directions. Integrated Employment offers a wealth of information from 15 experts about the current status of employment-related outcomes from the perspective of the state MR/DD organization, vocational rehabilitation, community rehabilitation provider systems, and the person with the disability...read more

Product Description: Volume II focuses on how the concepts and research on quality of life can be applied to people with mental retardation. Covers: 1) service delivery application, 2) organizational change application, 3) public policy application, and 4) quality of life, culture, and making a difference...read more

Product Description: This exciting new book by 17 respected experts explains how the concept of quality of life can improve the lives of people with mental retardation. Quality of Life explores the many perspectives, dimensions, and ways of operationalizing the concept of quality of life...read more

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Product Description: This book is written to help human service program administrators either in­ terpret or conduct program evaluations. Our intended audience includes admin­ istrators and those students being trained for careers in human services administration...read more