Browsing by Subject "Intellectual Disabilities"

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    Implications for Healing, Transformation and Prosperity: Historical and Cultural Trauma and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    (2018) Zuber, Andrea Lou
    Over the centuries, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have faced horrific treatment at the hands of greater society, and sometimes by the very people who care for them. In the United States, they have been subject to abuse, neglect, eugenics crusades, forced sterilization, involuntary separation from their families and communities in the form of institutionalization, and continued discrimination and oppression. This paper examines the impact those suffrages have had on people with IDD and their communities across the social determinants of health, concluding that today, this population is suffering from the effects of Historical and Cultural Trauma. With that understanding, a trauma-informed lens to healing can be applied to foster prosperity and transformation for people with IDD and the communities who support them.
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    A validation study of the Korean version of the Minnesota Self-Determination Scales (K-MSDS) for adults with intellectual disabilities.
    (2009-01) Cho, Jaehyun
    It has been reported that self-determination is closely associated with desirable transition outcomes of an individual. There are, however, few Korean self-determination measures reporting the technical characteristics and merits of the measures. The purpose of this study is to examine the reliability and validity of a Korean version of the Minnesota Self-Determination Scales (Abery, Smith, Stancliffe, & Elkin 2000). Participants were forty adults with intellectual disabilities who resided in the three group homes and one residential institution in a city of South Korea. A Korean version of the Minnesota Self-Determination Scales (K-MSDS) was translated and back-translated by the investigator and associated research team members for the study. The K-MSDS was administered to the participants in an interview format. Nine culturally inappropriate items were identified and modified by the investigator. Investigation of the test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and criterion-related concurrent validity were the focus of this study. The test-retest reliability results indicated that the K-MSDS had strong correlations ranging from .842 to .943 (Pearson’s r). The K-MSDS had strong internal consistency ranging from .967 to 993 (Cronbach’s α). Correlations for the criterionrelated concurrent validity were computed between the K-MSDS and a Korean version of Arc’s Self-Determination Scale (K-SDS). The results indicated that there were acceptable correlations between the K-SDS and the K-MSDS ranging from .509 to .514 (Pearson’s r). However, the test-retest reliability and criterion-related concurrent validity within a few domains of the K-MSDS were low.