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The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. 

The SIS was developed by 10 disability experts over five years and consists of an 8-page Interview and profile form that tests support needs in 57 life activities and 28 behavioral and medical areas.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly.

The SIS was developed by 10 disability experts over five years and consists of an 8-page Interview and profile form that tests support needs in 57 life activities and 28 behavioral and medical areas.

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. Currently adopted by the numerous states and countries, SIS is the only tool to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of what the client wants and what supports it takes to fulfill goals and aspirations. 

The SIS was developed by 10 disability experts over five years and consists of an 8-page Interview and profile form that tests support needs in 57 life activities and 28 behavioral and medical areas. A 128-page User’s Manual explains how to administer the scale. 

The SIS measures life activities in home living, community living, lifelong learning, employment, health and safety, social activities, and protection and advocacy.  The scale ranks each activity measured according to frequency (none, at least once a month), amount (none, less than 30 minutes), and type of support (monitoring, verbal gesturing).

Key features and benefits

• Gives you direct, reliable, and valid measurement of supports requirements in 57 life activities based on 7 areas of competence including the areas of home living, community living; life-long learning; employment; health and safety; social interaction; and protection and advocacy. 
• Provides a clear ranking of support needs in 15 medical and 13 behavioral conditions.
• Has excellent psychometric properties, is empirically based, and extensively field tested.
• Supplements adaptive behavior measures by telling you what practical supports are required to perform a task (Adaptive measures identify the skills an individual has to do a task).
• Presents an overall supports needs score and a percentile ranking of persons needs based on national field test data.
• Gives you a graphic plot of information recorded so that you have a visual display of areas of high intensity vs. low intensity of supports needs.
• Allows feedback from respondent and those most close to him/her so that you have a clear picture of person’s needs, preferences, and goals for life.
• Provides a solid knowledge base on respondent to develop individualized, person-centered plans.
• Assists with resource allocation and financial planning.
  Only scale to align conceptually with the current, supports-based system of defining and diagnosing mental retardation.
• Leads to long-term independence and enhanced quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities.

Comes with free copy of Guidelines for Interviewing People with Disabilities. 

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. Currently adopted in numerous states and countries, SIS is the only tool to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of what the client wants and what supports it takes to fulfill goals and aspirations.

The SIS measures life activities in home living, community living, lifelong learning, employment, health and safety, social activities, and protection and advocacy. The scale ranks each activity measured according to frequency (none, at least once a month), amount (none, less than 30 minutes), and type of support (monitoring, verbal gesturing).

The User’s Manual explains how to administer the Supports Intensity Scale, interpret raw scores, and use SIS in creating person-centered plans.

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. Currently adopted in numerous states and countries, SIS is the only tool to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of what the client wants and what supports it takes to fulfill goals and aspirations.

The SIS measures life activities in home living, community living, lifelong learning, employment, health and safety, social activities, and protection and advocacy. The scale ranks each activity measured according to frequency (none, at least once a month), amount (none, less than 30 minutes), and type of support (monitoring, verbal gesturing).

The User’s Manual explains how to administer the Supports Intensity Scale, interpret raw scores, and use SIS in creating person-centered plans.

The State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is a thorough and one-of-a-kind investigation on public spending, revenues, and programmatic trends in intellectual and developmental services within the United States. Directed by noted researcher Dr. David Braddock, the study is rich in information on trends and analyses in developmental disability services, and contains a 4-page “report card” on each state’s performance in disability spending. This is a must-have reference for anyone working in the field of disabilities.

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Forging a Federal-State Partnership
Forging a Federal-State Partnership provides an insider’s view of how the federal government assumed a dominant role in disability policy between the Kennedy and Obama eras. The book highlights the roles played by the federal government and the states in disability policy

Praise for State of the States

“This resource is well organized, easy to read, has useful references at the end of each chapter; and is pitched for audiences from general readers to professionals.”
—Choice, Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

“The State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is by far the best single source of information and analysis on spending trends and shifts in services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in this country.”
—Dr. Margaret Nygren, Executive Director/CEO,
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“The data in the State of the States are more important than ever as state governments and private providers move to more individualized support systems. Over the years, we have found the State of the States reference invaluable on multiple fronts and have come to rely on it extensively.”
—Renee L. Pietroangleo, CEO, American Network Of Community Options And Resources

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Quality of Life for People with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities offers a blueprint to organizations and communities on how to enhance quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Written for a primary audience of service providers and policy makers, Schalock et al. stress the need to reframe the concept of quality of life and rethink the fundamentals and activities of quality improvement. Then —based on their 110 years of experience in the intellectual disability field—the authors propose a quality assessment and improvement methodology grounded in person-centered needs and outcomes.

Readers will find practical guidelines, with examples, on how the quality of life concept can be put into operation, measured, and applied at the individual, organizational, and systems levels. Further, in showing how quality of life-related information can be used to enhance personal outcomes, the authors illustrate factors external to the field that influence how people within the field do business and measure performance.

Quality of Life for People with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities also outlines practical steps and guidelines to help practitioners develop and enhance resources to improve quality of life. The book summarizes the work done in moving the quality of life concept toward a greater understanding of the factors that constitute quality of life from an individual’s perspective.

Quality of Life for People with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities also contains a review of the federal government's new and comprehensive quality improvement/quality assurance expectations in home and community-based services and other specific examples of states' efforts. In addition, the book brings you a comprehensive review of quality of life literature. 

Readers of Quality of Life for Persons with Intellectual or Other Developmental Disabilities could also include public-sector funders, training personnel, and graduate students in training programs.

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This text is ideal for psychologists, counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with teenagers and young adults with autistic spectrum disorders addressing behavioral and emotional issues. 

Considerable research with this population is summarized in the book with a focus on what the literature means for clinicians. The solid incorporation of neurological and behavioral research in this text serves to illustrate that autism is, first and foremost, a neurological condition. 

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The take-away Trainee Resource Guide summarizes 25 modules taught in the Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum. Meant for trainee note-taking and reference. Each PBSTC set comes with one Trainee Resource Guide. Purchase a Trainee Resource Guide for each trainee attending the session.

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Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (2nd Edition)
The Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (PBSTC) teaches direct support staff and supervisors the principles of positive behavior support while interacting with people with intellectual disabilities in service settings. This Curriculum, originally published in 2004, has been successfully implemented by service providers and agencies across the country and abroad.

Customized Train-the-Trainer and direct support staff traning by author Dennis H. Reid now available. Click here to send an email for a training quote.

The Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (PBSTC) teaches direct support staff and supervisors the principles of positive behavior support while interacting with people with intellectual disabilities in service settings. This Curriculum, originally published in 2004, has been successfully implemented by service providers and agencies across the country and abroad.  

Positive behavior support strategies are known to work in dealing with challenging behavior and the PBSTC contains strategies that create a respectful client-staff environment in service settings.

The PBSTC contains 25 training modules in total, 9 of which are designed for supervisors only.  Each module addresses a key set of skills in positive behavior support, and in addtion the supervisors' modules trains supervisors to be effective managers. Each module consists of a Module Summary Sheet, Presentation Outline, Activity Sheets for trainee use during training, and Skills Checks to use to ensure trainees demonstrate skill mastery of the training content.

Since the Curriculum is competency based, trainees are required to demonstrate mastery of skills acquired after the completion of each module with the help of quizzes, role plays, and other activities. Following the classroom training, approximately 45 minutes is required with each trainee in the trainee’s routine work setting in order for the trainer to assess on-the-job mastery of the skills.

New to the Second Edition of PBSTC

• Simpler, shorter, and more inclusive and effective! 
• Combines supervisor and direct support editions into one efficient Curriculum.
• Contains wider selection of activities to work with people with varying degrees of intellectual disability.
• Completely redesigned, ready-to-use PowerPoint slides now on CD-ROM.
• Simplified trainee activities make learning easier for staff.
• Total training time for the Curriculum reduced to two-and-a-half days of classroom. training for direct support staff and three-and-a-half days for supervisors.
• Several modules combined to reduce total training time.

The PBSTC Continues to Deliver

• A tested, stable, and successful source of positive behavior support strategies to reduce challenging behavior.
• Performance and competency-based Curriculum requiring in-class activities, role plays, and on-the-job demonstration of skills.
• Trains supervisors on managerial duties, including staff observations, performance analysis, and evaluating PBS plans.
•  “Right out of the box” trainer curriculum comes with activity sheets, skills checks, and PowerPoint slides on CD-ROM!
• Fosters ample student and teacher interaction with enjoyable team activities.
• Proven to create culture of respect for people with intellectual disability.

How to buy the Curriculum

With each set of PBSTC, you will get a handsome 3-ring binder, one Trainee Resource Guide for note taking, and a CD-ROM with a PowerPoint presentation. 

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Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum Trainee Resource Guide (2nd Edition)
The take-away Trainee Resource Guide summarizes 25 modules taught in the Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum. Meant for trainee note-taking and reference. Each PBSTC set comes with one Trainee Resource Guide. Purchase a Trainee Resource Guides for each trainee attending the session.

Praise for the Curriculum

“The PBSTC is an excellent training tool. The Curriculum includes the acquisition and mastery of trainee performance skills that are essential to practicing PBS in work settings.” 
Carolyn Greene, School Administrator, J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center, North Carolina

"The PBSTC Curriculum provides a wonderful base of understanding for staff with no previous training or experience and enhances the skills of well-seasoned staff. The Curriculum is very well designed and is both teacher and student friendly. It is a succint program that allows ample student interaction and participation."
Donna Boyd, Tri-Developmental Center of Aiken County, South Carolina

“We are using the PBSTC as part of our pre-service training program and eventually all of our 600 employees will be trained with this Curriculum. The benefit to clients is the creation of a culture within our organization that treats people as individuals while setting a more supportive and caring environment. I have recommended without hesitation the PBSTC to my colleagues who espouse a PBS philosophy as well as those who are grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis.”
Michael F. Dorsey,  Professor of Education, Director - The Institute for Behavioral Studies, Endicott College

People Planning Ahead provides a comprehensive and structured way to ensure that loved ones receive care respecting their wishes and conforming to their personal, cultural, and religious beliefs during times of chronic and terminal illness, or severe disability. The book and the accompanying CD-ROM are designed to capture detailed information on an individual;from basic health information and preferences on blood transfusions to the individual's traits and personality types. Successful application of information gathered through People Planning Ahead ensures that individuals proceed through care and end-of-life stages with minimum adversity and maximum dignity.

Features

• Provides a structured way for planners to gather and organize information on a person's values, goals, and life and turn it into a detailed life plan.
• Contains guidelines on planning stages of lives of an illness.
• Includes plain language definitions of such terms as living wills, advance directives, competency, and capacity as well as other insights into end-of-life issues.
• Electronic questionnaires on accompanying CD-ROM make it easy to store and archive essential information.
• Assists a person no matter where they may be on the wellness continuum, from healthy adults to those diagnosed with terminal illnesses. 
• Comes with customized training workshops on end-of-life and person-centered planning.

Benefits

• Provides a structured way for planners to gather and organize information on a person's values, goals, and life and turn it into a detailed life plan.
• Ensures that the clearest and most detailed portfolio of the individual is available for families and professionals to use as a reference for future contingencies.
• Detailed planning forms on CD-ROM offer instructive and step-by-step examples on how to use information in real-life situations; electronic format makes it easy to store and archive information.
• Based on the principles of Essential Lifestyle Planning, an approach focused on maintaining the independence and autonomy of a person by acquiring information about their life preferences

Who Can Use This Book

People Planning Ahead follows the person-centered model to help the family member or professional guide an individual on his or her own personal journey to consider and define what is most important. The manual is written for:

• Disability professionals such as clinical coordinators or case managers in state agencies, institutions, or assisted living facilities
• Geriatric care managers in hospitals, departments of aging, or independent homes
• Social workers in hospices and other palliative care services
• Family members

Praise

"In striving to protect an individual’s right to die well, the People Planning Ahead workbook results in a succinct summary of what makes each person unique and what matters to him or her most about living. As a practicing physician, I consider this manual to be an invaluable for assessing an individual's quality of life and preserving true continuity of person-centered aspects of care across a variety of settings."
Ira Brock, MD, Director of Palliative Care, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, author of Dying Well and The Four Things that Matter Most

"I recommend this workbook to anyone and everyone who will have a say in how we will support people in their last days. The importance of this work cannot be overstated."
Michael Smull, Chair, Learning Community for Person Centered Practices

"People Planning Ahead brings together the best of theory and practice in person centered planning and end-of-life planning, and helps families and professionals face end-of-life experiences with thoughtfulness and hope rather than simply experiencing it as crisis and failure."
The Rev. Bill Gaventa, Director, Community and Congregational Supports, The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities

 

This title is currently out of stock. Please email books@aaidd.org for further information. 

AAIDD is committed to enhancing the capacity of professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are launching the Nuts & Bolts series as an initiative to assist disability professionals and others quickly learn and apply the leading methods to promote effective practices, sound research, progressive policies, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

You may purchase the e-book version of Nuts & Bolts by clicking here. 

“The national goals book does something not done anywhere else. In one place, with a coherent structure, all the major issues impacting people with intellectual disabilities across the lifespan are address, by some of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. This is an indispensable volume for students, researchers and practitioners.” Steve Eidelman, former Director of The Arc of the United States

“National Goals provides much needed guidance for the formulation of public policy and future action that will benefit people with intellectual disabilities in the United States and as such, this publication challenges us all to take those actions.” Nancy Thaler, Director for Quality Improvement Strategies for Home and Community Based Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 

“Many federal agencies and much federal legislation call on diverse stakeholders to work together on issues of importance to persons with disabilities. The National Goals book derived from the conference is an exceptional example of the wisdom of such expectations. The many federal and state government, professional, advocacy and academic agencies and organizations that supported this effort should take pride in the product of their commitments and contributions. Most importantly, in that same spirit, they should continue to work together to fulfill the recommendations and achieve the goals outlined in the book.” Robert (Bobby) Silverstein, Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy 

National Goals is America’s first effort to assess the status of the nation with regards to its fulfillment of research goals for persons with intellectual disabilities in areas such as education, positive behavior support, biomedical research, technology, transition planning, health supports, employment, self advocacy, aging, and community supports. The state of the knowledge and research contained in the book in areas such as education, positive behavior support, health supports, biomedical research, technology, and aging makes it an indispensable resource to anyone delivering quality care and services to citizens with intellectual disabilities. The book comes out of a groundbreaking, federal conference held in 2003. America’s prominent leaders in the intellectual disability met in Washington, DC to review what this nation knows and needs to learn specifically in the area of research to fulfill the promises made to persons with developmental disabilities. 

In the words of the authors, research plays a central role in defining and achieving national goals for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. To be useful, this research must provide accessible, relevant information to people with disabilities and their families, professionals, the general public, and public officials. The result is a book that distills scientific research into comprehensible and accessible information so that key stake holders can align the reality of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities with public policy—the clear and unambiguous promises made to them in the national legislation, court decisions, promises of the President, and other sources of national policy.

Thank you for visiting our booth at this years virtual NADD Annual Conference. Please enjoy 15% off when you purchase Trauma Informed Behavioral Interventions and Maltreatment of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as a bundle. 

For more information about these titles, please visit their respective pages at the links below: 
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Written by the AAIDD Ad Hoc Committee on Terminology and Classification:  
Robert L. Schalock, Sharon A. Borthwick-Duffy, Valerie J. Bradley,  Wil H.E. Buntinx, David L. Coulter,  Ellis M. (Pat) Craig, ; Sharon C. Gomez,  Yves Lachapelle, Ruth Luckasson, Alya Reeve,  Karrie A. Shogren,  Martha E. Snell, Scott Spreat, Marc J. Tassé, James R. Thompson,  Miguel A. Verdugo-Alonso,  Michael L. Wehmeyer, and Mark H. Yeager

This manual contains the most current and authoritative information and knowledge on intellectual disability, including best practice guidelines on diagnosing and classifying intellectual disability and developing a system of supports for people living with an intellectual disability.  Written by a committee of 18 experts, Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports, 11th Edition is based on seven years of work on: (1) a synthesis of current information and best practices regarding intellectual disability; (2) numerous reviews and critiques of the 10th edition of the AAIDD definition manual; and (3) feedback from the field regarding a series of articles published by the Committee. This is the first official AAIDD definition manual with the terminology “Intellectual Disability.” 

Featuring Best Practice Guidelines and Discussion for Professionals

 Here’s how you can benefit from this best practice manual:  

• Learn an authoritative definition and diagnostic system of intellectual disability designed to give you a thorough and step-by-step understanding of all the factors that go into determining intellectual disability.
• Consult expert guidelines on critical issues such as the role of assessment in the diagnostic process, challenges faced in quantifying intelligence, evaluating the role of IQ in making a diagnosis, and how to assess adaptive behavior.
• Understand key clinical judgment strategies to enhance the validity and precision of a clinician’s decision on the diagnosis of intellectual disability.
• Discover the relationship between the AAIDD System and other diagnostic systems.
• Read detailed discussions on the 10 dimensions of support areas in a person’s life and various approaches to individualized service planning.
• Learn about the unique needs of people with intellectual disability with higher IQs.
• Learn how to apply the AAIDD Definition System within special education systems, public policy initiatives, and provider organizations. 

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User's Guide
This practical User's Guide to the 2010 AAIDD Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports manual informs clinicians, educators, policy makers, and program managers how to implement the various components of the AAIDD definition system in their specific job settings. The authors discuss the contemporary relevance of the supports-based AAIDD definition in the context of issues ranging from special education practices and IDEA mandates, to diagnosing individuals with higher IQ and conducting retroactive diagnoses. Policy makers and program managers will benefit from discussions on how the supports paradigm can improve quality outcomes, and how the current system incorporates the consensus in the field to utilize a supportsbased approach.

Praise for the 11th Edition

“The 11th edition of the AAIDD Definition Manual continues our progress in both describing a person with an intellectual disability in several dimensions, not solely based on IQ or Adaptive Behavior, and integrating further the concept of supports into the definition and practice.  Refinements based on an extensive feedback system, both in the field and in peer-reviewed literature are incorporated making the 11th edition the most advanced tool of its kind.” 
Steven M. Eidelman, Professor and Co-Director, National Leadership Consortium, University of Delaware
 
"An excellent, up-to-date reference enthusiastically recommended for college library collections and teh resource shelves of aspiring and practicising psychologists." 
Library Bookwatch, February 2010

“An indispensable desk-top reference and primer on assessing intellectual disability that includes a compendium of leading practices on structuring effective life-long supports.” 
 Renee L. Pietrangelo, CEO, ANCOR
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Coming January 2021
Intellectual Disability: Definition, Diagnosis,    Classification, and Systems of Supports, 12th Edition
The AAIDD definition manual leads the field in understanding,  defining diagnosing, and classifying the construct of intellectual disability (ID). The 12th edition – the first in 10 years – includes new findings and developments from the last 10 years, including the planning of supports for people with ID.
It will be available from the AAIDD bookstore by the end of January, 2021.

Get an extra 10% discount when you buy the 11^th edition of Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports together with the User’s Guide to the 11^th edition. The prices above reflect the discount. Make your purchase before May 9th and save a bundle! 

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This special issue of the AAIDD journal Inclusion (v3, n4) is drawn from the work of the National Goals in Research, Practice, and Policy conference, held in August 2015. The conference brought together leaders in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for the purpose of summarizing the current state of knowledge in the field and developing a platform of national goals in research that will have the greatest impact on practice and policy. The articles in this special issue represent the goals developed by the leaders, presenters, and participants in the 10 strands of the conference:

• Self-determination and self-advocacy
• Social inclusion
• Education of children and youth
• Employment and economic self-sufficiency
• Long-term services and supports
• Health and wellness
• Justice
• Aging: Transitions in health, retirement, and late life
• Supporting families across the life course
• Workforce to support the health and community lives of people with IDD

Each article describes the rationale for the goals and their implications in terms of anticipated effects on policy and practice and improvements in the lives of people with IDD.

The co-editors of Inclusion are Michael Wehmeyer and Karrie Shogren of the University of Kansas. The co-editors of this special issue are Amy Hewitt of the University of Minnesota, Tamar Heller of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and John Butterworth of the University of Massachusetts Boston. 

While promoting good health among people with intellectual disability (ID) is much discussed as a public priority, there is no literature that recapitulates the state of the science in the area of health promotion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This publication, based on a national conference conducted by AAIDD (Formerly AAMR), summarizes current research on 14 topics that affect the health and well being of people with ID in the hope of informing research, policy, clinical, and health care initiatives. The book provides a solid basis for developing interventions and solutions to eliminate health disparities among people with ID. The topics explored in this report are: hypertension; obesity; swallowing dysfunction/dysphagia; epilepsy; mental health; physical activity and fitness; women’s health; safety/injury and violence; case management and care coordination; alternative and complementary medicine; tobacco and substance abuse; secondary conditions risk appraisal for adults; and general health of people with ID.