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ERIC Number: EJ1458522
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-263X
EISSN: EISSN-1573-3580
A Conceptual View of Expanding Person-Centered Thinking Approaches for Developing Personalized Integrated Supports for People with Disabilities and Their Families
Michelle C. Reynolds; Mirian E. Ofonedu; Angelina Alpert
Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, v37 n1 p35-50 2025
People with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families and professionals often engage in person-centered planning to determine current and future supports needed to improve quality of life. Previous practice focused heavily on applying for disability specific supports referred to as formal supports and waiting hopefully, with no guarantee benefits would be provided or that benefits would adequately support a good and valued life. It is critical to process expand perspectives to consider integrated supports, a concept that encompasses both natural community-based supports combined and woven together with formal eligibility-determined supports, if available. This conceptual paper describes the current limitations of dependence on formal supports and supports the use of integrated supports that combine natural and formal supports using the Integrated Support Star, a tool within the Charting the LifeCourse. The five parts of the Integrated Support Star include a variety of aspects of life: Personal strengths and assets, Relationship-based supports and roles, Community resources, Technology-based solutions, and Eligibility specific supports. The authors describe how each of these portions of the Integrated Support Star can provide a way to expand the person-centered planning process using integrated supports to achieve a self-directed and supported life that does not only depend on eligibility-based supports.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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