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Impact of Severe Intellectual Disability on Proxy Instrumental Assessment of Quality of Life
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Bertelli, Marco O.; Bianco, Annamaria; Rossi, Andrea; Mancini, Michele; La Malfa, Giampaolo; Brown, Ivan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Proxy quality of life (QoL) evaluation has been reported to be influenced by many factors. The present study was designed to investigate the impact that the presence of severe intellectual disability (ID) may have on proxy attribution of QoL in the instrumental assessment. Methods: The "other person" form (proxy…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Quality of Life, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Emotional Development and Adaptive Abilities in Adults with Intellectual Disability. A Correlation Study between the Scheme of Appraisal of Emotional Development (SAED) and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS)
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La Malfa, Giampaolo; Lassi, Stefano; Bertelli, Marco; Albertini, Giorgio; Dosen, Anton – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The importance of emotional aspects in developing cognitive and social abilities has already been underlined by many authors even if there is no unanimous agreement on the factors constituting adaptive abilities, nor is there any on the way to measure them or on the relation between adaptive ability and cognitive level. The purposes of this study…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Behavior Problems, Adjustment (to Environment), Measures (Individuals)