Supporting Nick to make decisions : an exploration of ways to promote choice and control
By: Tracy, Jane.
Series: Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2 (1) 2015: 29-36. 2015Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
| SUPPORTED DECISION MAKING | ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION | SUPPORT STAFF | SOCIAL INTEGRATION | COMMUNICATION | CASE STUDIESSummary: This article focuses on both the importance and challenges of decision-making for people with intellectual disabilities, using the example of one young man, Nick, as the context for discussion of these issues. Nick is a young man with significant physical and intellectual disability. He has a severe communication impairment and uses a range of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) strategies to express himself. The article is written by Nick's mother and uses examples from family life to explore the daily tensions in, and opportunities for, choice making.
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This article focuses on both the importance and challenges of decision-making for people with intellectual disabilities, using the example of one young man, Nick, as the context for discussion of these issues. Nick is a young man with significant physical and intellectual disability. He has a severe communication impairment and uses a range of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) strategies to express himself. The article is written by Nick's mother and uses examples from family life to explore the daily tensions in, and opportunities for, choice making.
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