Aging, Developmental Disabilities and Leisure: Policy and Service Delivery Issues

2013 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery

Integrating Technology into Service Delivery for Persons with Developmental Disabilities

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 299-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Schoech ◽  
Al R. Cavalier ◽  
Betts Hoover ◽  
George Kondraske ◽  
Carrie Brown
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Integrating Technology

The Perceptions of Professionals Toward Siblings of Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan M. Burke ◽  
Chung eun Lee ◽  
Catherine K. Arnold ◽  
Aleksa Owen
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Sibling Involvement

Abstract Adult siblings of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) report struggling to navigate the adult disability service delivery system and collaborate with professionals. To date, though, it is unclear how professionals encourage sibling involvement and, accordingly, the facilitators and challenges in working with siblings. For this study, 290 professionals participated in a national web-based survey; participants answered three open-ended questions about ways to involve siblings, positive experiences with siblings, and challenges in working with siblings. Professionals reported person-level and systems-level supports to encourage sibling involvement. Also, professionals reported enjoying working with cohesive families of individuals with IDD and witnessing the benefits that siblings bring to their brothers and sisters with IDD. Challenges in working with siblings included: lack of sibling involvement, systemic barriers, and caregiving burden. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

The Significance of the 1978 Rehabilitation Act Amendments for Educators of Deaf-Blind Children

1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome D. Schein
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
The State ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
New Facilities

The “Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978” (P.L. 95-602) should have a great impact on the welfare of deaf-blind children. This legislation mandates the removal of communication barriers to handicapped people through better quality and availability of interpreter and reader services. Research possibilities have been expanded with the formation of the National Institute for Handicapped Research. The Act also authorizes new facilities and programs for independent living. It mandates cooperation between agencies at the State and Federal levels of government, which should promote effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery. The Act removes upper and lower age limits and drops the requirement that clients be feasible for employment, making clear the intention of Congress that rehabilitation be considered a life-long process. In order to realize the worthy objectives of P.L. 95-602, adequate funds must be appropriated for its administration. Those concerned with the welfare of handicapped persons must keep pressure on Washington to turn these ideas into actualities.

Promoting Community-Based Services: Implications for Program Design, Implementation, and Public Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-315
Author(s):  
Michael D. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Legal Intervention ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Severe Developmental Disabilities

As persons with severe developmental disabilities are transferred from institutional environments to community-based programs for habilitation and residential care, a wide variety of service delivery needs and public policy issues must be confronted. In those jurisdictions where the courts have intervened and mandated alternatives to institutional living, the process of change and ensuing alternatives can be profoundly affected by appropriate legal intervention. The task of balancing professional, community, legal, ethical, and political needs in bringing alternatives into existence represents a formidable challenge to all involved. This article describes five community-based projects developed and maintained by the Georgetown University Child Development Center University Affiliated Facility providing services to children and adults with severe developmental disabilities and those at risk for handicapping conditions. Special emphasis is placed on training and public policy issues, the consultative process, and interdisciplinary service delivery models as they relate to the development of community-based programs.

Supported Employment Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Unmet Promises and Future Challenges for Rehabilitation Counselors

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Edmund Degeneffe
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Service Option

This article reviews the performance of supported employment as a service option for persons with developmental disabilities. In many ways, supported employment has not met its promises as a preferred vocational rehabilitation option, in such areas as choice, empowerment, and addressing the vocational needs of persons with severe disabilities. This article reviews ways in which rehabilitation counselors need to address supported employment’s shortcomings, both in service delivery and social action.

Paternalism to Trusteeship: Limitations of Autonomy Caring for Persons With Intellectual Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Lisa Alberts
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Models ◽  
Models Of Service Delivery

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have overcome the abuses of the past but continue to be challenged by discrimination and stigmatization. This article highlighted and reconciled the tension to care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Autonomy, facilitated by relationship with trusted advocates, can move individuals forward and replace age-old precepts of paternalism as individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities exert their citizenship. Nurses and other healthcare providers can create new models of service delivery focused on caring, in relationship with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, continuing the evolution of care and culture change needed for belonging.

A Classroom Sign Communication Program for the Severely Handicapped

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
Linda Goodman ◽  
Robin Kroc
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Severely Handicapped

This article describes a strategy used to teach sign communication to severely handicapped students in the classroom. It recommends that the speech-language pathologist adopt a consultant role in service delivery.

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