Product Description

The book's goal is to promote the sharing of information, experience, solutions, and insights in order to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life. The editors have toned down Ontario-specific material, added information that compares definitions, trends, and systems worldwide, and included resources available in different countries, to reshape for international audience.

This book will be divided into six sections: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Etiology and Conditions, Support and Intervention, Developmental Disabilities Through the Lifespan, Health, and The Future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46171 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

Review
A timely contribution . . . cover[s] the myriad of conditions and impairments, but still manages to be strengths-based and not simply a litany of deficits. --Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas; Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, Senior Scientist, Beach Center on Disability

Extremely comprehensive . . . validates the importance of quality of life and self-determination as key lens through which to view supports for persons with disabilities. --Director, Developmental Disabilities Institute, Wayne State University

Gives a strong international flavor to the issues, background and perspectives worldwide of rights, services, science and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. --Co-Director, The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities, University of Delaware

About the Author
Ivan Brown is Director of the Disability Support Unit at the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto.

Customer Reviews

poor condition when received it
The shipping was fast, price was good. But very disappointed when I received it. The cover and back of the book looks like an old book, old and dirty!

Horrible Book
This book is written by so many authors that it is not cohesive and reading it is a struggle.