College: an option for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Leisure time and recretional activities for people with intellectual disabilities: literature review of its nature, barriers, strategies and effects

Abstract: Background and Aim: In the contemporary world, investigation about how to spend leisure time and participating in recreational activities along with the researches concerning work and its effects has been paid attention to by many authors. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the quality of leisure time and the role of recreational activities in the life of people with inte...

Comparison of Postural Control and Functional Balance in Individuals People with Intellectual Disabilities with and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

Introduction: Balance in individual with intellectual disability has a great importance due to the failure to perform motor tasks. The purpose of the present study was to compare postural control and balance function in two groups of individual with intellectually disabled with and without developmental coordination disorder. Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional and causal-comparat...

معرفی رویکرد خود- وکیلی و بررسی مروری تأثیرات آن به عنوان روشی مناسب برای توانمند سازی افراد دارای کم توانی ذهنی

Not so long ago, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were deprived of their primary rights and many people fought against this discrimination to achieve these rights and sought equal rights as everyone in the society through self-advocacy movement. The main purpose of this movement is empowering and enhancing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities’ con...

Residential services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities at the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the 10th anniversary of Olmstead, and in the Year of Community Living.

In June 2009, President Barack Obama launched the ‘‘Year of Community Living’’ for persons with disabilities (While House, 2009). The Year of Community Living was positioned to begin on the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision (in June 1999) and to end on the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA; in July 1990). In doing so, the president committed hi...

Age-appropriateness: enabler or barrier to a good life for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?