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Handbook of Evidence-Based Practices in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Promoting the self-determination of adolescents and adults with intellectual disability has emerged as a best practice in special education and related fields for multiple reasons. Research has established an evidence-base for the impacts of interventions to promote self-determination on enhanced self-determination and more positive school and adult outcomes for youth with disabilities. Enhanced self-determination has been linked, as well, to more positive quality of life and lifestyle satisfaction. This chapter introduces and overviews the self-determination construct, placing it within a strengths-based approach to disability. The history of the disability movement leading up to the focus on promoting self-determination that emerged in the early 1990s provides a context within which to understand the importance and relevance of issues pertaining to self-determination and choice for youth and adults with disabilities. Research-based and evidence-based methods, materials, strategies, and assessments to promote self-determination, choice opportunities, and greater student involvement in educational planning are discussed, highlighting those practices and assessments that have been shown to be effective with students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Authors’ Note

The Arc’s Self-Determination Scale is available for free online at http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/self-determination-assessment-tools.html. The authors’ are in the initial stages of validating a new measure of self-determination, called the Self-Determination Inventory-Self-Report version (Shogren et al., 2014), that includes items from The Arc’s Self-Determination Scale, but expands assessment to include domains identified by Causal Agency Theory. When field testing is completed, potentially by mid to late 2015, the measure will be available at http://www.self-determination.org. The Minnesota Self-Determination Scales can be obtained by contacting Brian Abery at the University of Minnesota, Rehabilitation Training Center on Community Living (http://rtc.umn.edu/rtc/). The Whose Future is it Anyway? materials can be downloaded in PDF format online for free at http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/self-determination-education-materials/whos-future-is-it-anyway.html. The SDCDM process and information about the model can be found online at http://www.ngsd.org/

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Wehmeyer, M.L., Shogren, K.A. (2016). Self-Determination and Choice. In: Singh, N. (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Practices in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Evidence-Based Practices in Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26583-4_21

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