The Need for Norming Instruments That Measure Inclusion Activities Among People Who Have Intellectual Disability
The Need for Norming Instruments That Measure Inclusion Activities Among People Who Have Intellectual Disability
By: Scott Spreat1, Dylan Hicks2
1Woods System of Care
2American University
Keywords: Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Norming
Abstract
More attention has been brought towards efforts to better integrate people with Intellectual
Disability (ID) with the rest of society. Part of this integration is understanding the similarities
and differences in the number of interactions that people with Intellectual Disability and the
normative population have in various scenarios. In the absence of normed scales measuring
inclusion, community participation data collected from 2005 people with Intellectual Disability
were compared with data from a variety of samples of members of the general public. Studies
suggest a means by which inclusion data might be interpreted. Preliminary results suggested that
people with Intellectual Disability participated in social community events slightly more than the
general public but slightly less in life support events such as grocery shopping. This study
provides insight into how people with Intellectual Disability interact in different community
settings, but also a greater need for more public data on average interaction data from the general
population as a whole.
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