upport needs of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Age-related implications for assessment.

2016

Karrie Shogren
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The Supports Intensity Scale Childrens Version (SIS-C) was developed to assess the support needs of children and youth ages 5 to 16 years with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Data from the standardization sample of the SIS-C was analyzed to evaluate the impact of the age cohorts used to stratify the sample (5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16 year olds) on the measurement model as well as the latent means, standard deviations, and correlations. The findings confirmed measurement invariance across age cohorts, but suggested that at the latent level younger children, generally, have more intensive support needs and that as students with intellectual disability age their support needs decrease. In addition, the 15-16 age cohort displayed differences in terms of the strength of correlations between support need domains, with stronger correlations than the other age groups. Implications for future research and practice are described.  

Support needs, Support needs assessment

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