scholarly journals Substitute Decision-Making for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Living in Residential Care: Learning Through Experience

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dunn ◽  
Isabel C. H. Clare ◽  
Anthony J. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Learning Through Experience

Supported Decision-Making and Personal Autonomy for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 792-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandini Devi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Recognition ◽  
Conceptual Skills ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Right ◽  
Everyday Living

Making decisions is an important component of everyday living, and issues surrounding autonomy and self-determination are crucial for persons with intellectual disabilities. Adults with intellectual disabilities are characterized by the limitations in their intellectual functioning and in their adaptive behavior, which compromises three skill types (conceptual skills, social skills, and practical skills), and this starts before the age of 18. Though persons with intellectual disabilities are characterized by having these limitations, they are thought to face significant decisionmaking challenges due to their disability. Moving away from this generalization, Article 12 (Equal recognition before the law) of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (herewith called “the Convention”) addresses this issue of decision-making for persons with disabilities, recognizing the right to legal capacity.

scholarly journals Communication-based behaviour support for adults with intellectual disabilities receiving dental care: A focus group study exploring dentists’ decision-making and communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Phadraig ◽  
Colin Griffiths ◽  
Philip McCallion ◽  
Mary McCarron ◽  
June Nunn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Online Focus Groups ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Intuitive Decision Making ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

A better understanding of how communication-based behaviour supports are applied with adults with intellectual disabilities may reduce reliance on restrictive practices such as holding, sedation and anaesthesia in dentistry. In this study, we explore how communication is used by dentists who provide treatment for adults with intellectual disabilities. A descriptive qualitative study, adopting synchronous online focus groups, was undertaken with six expert dentists in Ireland. Members were contacted again in pairs or individually for further data collection, analysed using thematic content analysis. Two relevant categories emerged from the data, relating to the selection and application of communication-based behaviour support for adults with intellectual disabilities. Decision-making processes were explored. Building on these categories, a co-regulating process of communication emerged as the means by which dentists iteratively apply and adapt communicative strategies. This exploration revealed rationalist and intuitive decision-making. Implications for education, practice and research are identified.

Aging in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Tracy Lazenby-Paterson ◽  
Hannah Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Swallowing Disorders ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

The literature recognizes the important role of the Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) in the treatment of communication and swallowing disorders in children with Intellectual Disabilities (ID). However there is also a need to emphasize the importance of specialist SLP input across the lifespan of people with ID, and to recognize the specific, ongoing and changing communication and swallowing needs of adults with ID as they get older.

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