Author : Amy S. Hewitt
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 9780996506892
Author : Matthew P. Janicki
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
"This authoritative resource helps answer many questions about designing and maintaining successful community residences. It discusses management issues on all fronts, including administration, staff training, liability, financing, evaluation, and safety ... areas that will dictate the quality and stability of a residence from the start. Backed by research and years of practical experience, nationally recognized authorities share their knowledge of the critical day-to-day operations of various types of community living alternatives. Plus, they discuss the long-range planning required to ease the transition to community residences for persons with developmental disabilities. With all its valuable information, Community Residences makes it possible for program directors, staff trainers, agency board members, and clinicians to say with confidence that community living for persons with developmental disabilities is here to stay!" -- Back cover.
Author : Tim Clement
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843106450
Draws on a unique 3-year action research study that surveyed daily life and residents' experiences. Provides evidence-based strategic and practical suggestions for ways that staff and organisations can improve quality of life for residents. Authors from La Trobe University, Australia.
Author : United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 1967
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN :
Author : Judith Greenbaum
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Developmentally disabled
ISBN : 1572244518
A Comprehensive Guide for Parents and Caregivers As any parent or caregiver of an individual with developmental disabilities can tell you, planning for the future of an adult with intellectual disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, severe autism, or another such condition requires hard work and good advice. While complete independence and self-reliance is out of reach for many adults with developmental disabilities, a productive, stable, and enjoyable life is certainly possible. But government and private support for parents and disabled individualsis scattered and difficult to negotiate. This book is a comprehensive guide to resources you can use to help an adult child or other individual with developmental disabilities for whom you care. The book begins by assessing the quality of life of the adult with a disability. It offers a wealth of suggestions for making that person's life even better. The book then focuses on long-term planning for the individual with a disability and helps answer the question, Who will take care of my child after I'm gone? Learn effective ways to: Assess a disabled individual's strengths and need for support services Develop a plan to for building a busy and productive life Locate good housing and employment opportunities Gather a supportive team of caregivers Advocate for a disabled individual with community agencies
Author : Beth Finke
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Hanni, a seeing eye dog, describes how she helps her owner, Beth, to maneuver through the day.
Author : Dan Fernbach
Publisher : Legislative Reference Bureau
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Developmentally disabled children
ISBN :
Author : Cammie McGovern
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0525539069
A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age. After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism," a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing--and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. She asks the tough questions: What should parents prioritize as they ready their children for adulthood? How do we redefine success for our children? How can we sustain a hopeful attitude while navigating one obstacle after another? As Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: How can we ensure an independent future when we're gone? Hard Landings will serve as a renewed beacon of hope for parents who want to ensure the fullest life possible for their child's future.
Author : John W. Jacobson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0387329315
This book provides easy-to-access, reliable, up-to-date information on the numerous advances in research, assessment, treatment, and service delivery for clinicians, academics, administrators and other mental health professionals. It examines issues surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities in a real-world sociopolitical framework. In addition, the book summarizes the major domains and emerging subspecialties of this vast area into one useful reference and so offers a wide range of assessment and diagnostic tools and tactics, including cognitive and adaptive behavior assessments.
Author : Ted Tedrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136371230
If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you! Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure will help you improve your ability to instruct exercise and other fitness activities and, at the same time, increase your knowledge about aging and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This combination of skills and knowledge is important to your understanding of your clients and their needs. You will assist them in leading a more active, structured life that will result in a higher sense of satisfaction in their daily living and health benefits that will speak for themselves. Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure gives you specific guidelines for establishing fitness programs as well as ideas for offering clients goals and incentives that will evoke and maintain their enthusiasm to participate. Using a proven model, the Arts/Fitness Quality of Life Activities Program, the authors show how careful planning and sequencing can produce successful results, such as peer interaction, flexible thinking, self-expression, and improved mental health. As you learn about the key factors for programming for this group of clients, you will also learn about: the demographics of this population leisure education training and cross-training with aging specialists and mental retardation staff community integration and for whom it is appropriate inactivity in later life and the complications it causes life satisfaction and leisure participation differences in physical and cognitive functioning among this population consumer satisfaction among older adults with developmental disabilities It is never too late to introduce leisure activities into the lives of those with developmental disabilities. With encouragement and careful guidance, you can lead your elders/clients into a more active and healthy life. Use Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure as a guide to find activities and exercise programs that are appropriate, fun, and worthwhile!
