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Choice, Preference, and Disability - Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Choice, Preference, and Disability - Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Positive Psychology and Disability Series
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This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people
with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities. It provides an overview of choice and
examines foundational concepts related to choice and preference,
including self-determination and supported decision making.
Chapters examine a range of critical service and policy issues,
such as guardianship, individualized funding, the health care
system, and the situation regarding choices for people with
disability in international contexts. In addition, chapters explore
issues ranging from the development of preference and choice in
childhood to choices in older age and end of life matters. It
provides in-depth analysis of particular choices faced at different
points across the lifespan. The book concludes with implications
for policy and practice. Topics featured in this book include:
Supported decision making for adults with intellectual disabilities
or acquired brain injury. The role of parents and families in the
development of choice-making skills. Preference assessments for
individuals who cannot tell us what they prefer. Employment
opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. Sexual and
reproductive rights for people with intellectual disabilities.
Disability and the choice to become a parent. Choice, Preference,
and Disability is an essential resource for researchers,
professors, clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well
as graduate students in the fields of developmental and positive
psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education,
occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and
healthcare policy.
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