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System and Individual Outcomes and Their Predictors in Services and Support for People with IDD
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System and Individual Outcomes and Their Predictors in Services and Support for People with IDD
Descrição
INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -’AAIDD
Autor
Rena´ta Ticha´, Amy Hewitt, Derek Nord, and Sherri Larson
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Ano que foi publicado
2013
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Tipo de pesquisa
Metodologia
This article summarizes outcomes and their predictors through systems and individual lenses by examining the research and findings of the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ Data Projects of National Significance that address residential services, employment services, costs of services, and individual outcomes. The article also discusses challenges and debates associated with outcome-related research and poses future research questions.
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Método de Pesquisa
The PNS described here utilize different approaches to handling and analyzing their data. Residential services, employ ment services, and costs of services are outcomes reported in a descriptive way by RISP at the University of Minnesota (http://rtc2.umn.edu/risp/ main/); State of the States in Developmental Disabilities Project at the University of Colorado, Boulder (http://www.stateofthestates.org/); and Access to Integrated Employment: National Data Collection on Day and Employment Services for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (http://www. statedata.info/). The NCI project, a collaborative effort between the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) and the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI), also funded by AIDD as a PNS, collects data on individual outcomes (http://www. nationalcoreindicators.org/). In addition, University of Minnesota’s RRTC partnered with NASDDDS and HSRI to conduct inferential analysis of the data to examine relationships between person-referenced, family/community-related, systems-referenced and global predictors, and individual outcomes for people with IDD through a project funded by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research.
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Comentário Avaliativo
It is not the intent of this paper to provide comprehensive overviews of the PNS, but rather to highlight the outcomes related to residential services, employment services, costs of services, and individual outcomes, such as choice making, loneliness, and health. It is apparent that even though the PNS have played a critical role in informing the field about the most recent trends in residential services, employment services, costs of services, and individual outcomes for people with IDD, there is room for improvement. The utilization of available resources and findings can be maximized in order for research, policy making, and advocacy communities to become more efficient and effective in serving people with IDD nationwide by implementing a framework for organizing the results of PNS, such as the one outlined by Shogren et al. (2009), training researchers in cutting-edge descriptive and analytic methods, improving dissemination strategies, as well as increasing communication between researchers, trainers, research and training centers, and policy makers.