Aging and Decision Making
People with IDD are now living longer and are increasingly at risk of serious health conditions (Pimlott, 2019).
The development of long-term medical and end-of-life plans, either at elder care facilities or within the family, has traditionally not included individuals with IDD, especially those having more complex needs and severe IDD.
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Etiological Understanding of Decision Making and Id/Idd
Recent conceptualizations of ID (Bertelli et al., 2018; Schalock et al., 2021) support a model of intelligence that goes beyond the diagnostic criteria of measuring ability by IQ tests, to assessing levels of individual impairment in terms of executive and specific cognitive functions that provide an individual profile of deficits in learning and a.
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How does Autism affect decision-making?
Deliberative and less intuitive thinking among persons with autism serves them well when it comes to decisions that require deep thinking but interferes with decisions that most people can make spontaneously and with little effort.
ASD-related social deficits affect some decisions but not others.
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Impact of Comorbidities on Decision Making
Although delayed development and marked deficits in intellectual functioning are the most pervasive problems posed by intellectual disability (ID), research indicates that comorbid problems occur at high rates for individuals with ID as a subset within the larger IDD group.
These difficulties could include challenging behaviors, mental health probl.
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Is decision making a problem for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities?
Decision making plays a central role in most aspects of life.
However, it is apparent that decision making is an area of difficulty for many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
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Lifespan View of Decision Making
One of the key deterrents to people with IDD making decisions is the extent to which they have been previously denied the opportunity to make important decisions.
As a result, we assert that making choices and decisions and becoming self-determining constitutes a sociocultural learning process with which an individual with IDD should be naturally i.
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What is a decision-making model?
While there is no one best way to tackle any decision situation, the model allows for exploring pathways of decision processing, and potential difficulties in reaching an effective decision outcome, that can help explain gaps and limitations in an individual’s repertoire of decision-making skills.
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What is supported decision-making?
You may have heard about supported decision-making and wonder what it is and how it applies to your practice.
Supported decision-making is an effort to promote the rights of people with disabilities to make their own decisions by developing the skills and support they need to make these daily and major life decisions.