Short description:

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides an overview of choice and examines foundational concepts related to choice and preference, including self-determination and supported decision making. Chapters examine a range of critical service and policy issues, such as guardianship, individualized funding, the health care system, and the situation regarding choices for people with disability in international contexts. In addition, chapters explore issues ranging from the development of preference and choice in childhood to choices in older age and end of life matters. It provides in-depth analysis of particular choices faced at different points across the lifespan. The book concludes with implications for policy and practice. 

Topics featured in this book include:

• Supported decision making for adults with intellectual disabilities or acquired braininjury.
• The role of parents and families in the development of choice-making skills.
• Preference assessments for individuals who cannot tell us what they prefer.
• Employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Sexual and reproductive rights for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Disability and the choice to become a parent. 

Choice, Preference, and Disability is an essential resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well as graduate students in the fields of developmental and positive psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education, occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and healthcare policy.

Long description:

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides an overview of choice and examines foundational concepts related to choice and preference, including self-determination and supported decision making. Chapters examine a range of critical service and policy issues, such as guardianship, individualized funding, the health care system, and the situation regarding choices for people with disability in international contexts. In addition, chapters explore issues ranging from the development of preference and choice in childhood to choices in older age and end of life matters. It provides in-depth analysis of particular choices faced at different points across the lifespan. The book concludes with implications for policy and practice. 

Topics featured in this book include:

• Supported decision making for adults with intellectual disabilities or acquired brain injury.
• The role of parents and families in the development of choice-making skills.
• Preference assessments for individuals who cannot tell us what they prefer.
• Employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Sexual and reproductive rights for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Disability and the choice to become a parent. 

Choice, Preference, and Disability is an essential resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well as graduate students in the fields of developmental and positive psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education, occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and healthcare policy.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: Overview of Choice and Preference.- Chapter 1. Choice Availability and People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 2. Self-Determination, Preference and Choice.- Chapter 3. Supported Decision Making.- Chapter 4. Reflections on Choice: The Stories of Self-Advocates.- Section 2: Policies, Practices, and Systems that Affect Choice.- Chapter 5. Choice within the Israeli Welfare State: Lessons Learned From Legal Capacity and Housing Services.- Chapter 6. Choice, Preference and Disability: A View from Central and Eastern Europe.- Chapter 7. Choice, Control and Individualized Funding: The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme.- Chapter 8. Choice and Preference within the Healthcare Context.- Section 3:Choice and Preference Across the Lifespan.- Chapter 9. The Development of Choice-Making and Implications for Promoting Choice and Autonomy for Children and Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 10. Preference Assessments, Choice, and Quality of Life for People with Significant Disabilities.- Chapter 11. Choices and Transition from School to Adult Life: Experiences in China.- Chapter 12. Employment Opportunities for People with Intellectual Disabilities.-  Chapter 13. Choices, Relationships and Sexuality: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.- Chapter 14. The Choice of Becoming a Parent.- Chapter 15. Adults with Intellectual Disability: Choice and Control in the Context of Family.- Chapter 16. Choice as People Age with Intellectual Disability: An Irish Perspective.- Chapter 17. End-of-Life Choices.- Section 4: Implications for Policy and Practice.- Chapter 18: Policies and Practices to Support Preference, Choice and Self-Determination: An Ecological Understanding.