http://hdl.handle.net/10366/131999 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:01:13 GMT 2026-04-21T08:01:13Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132051 Background: Interest in the support needs of people with intellectual disability has directed attention to developing assessments to measure ofthe pattern and intensity of supports which people need to participate in valued life activities. Assessments of the support needs of children must account for the influence of age. Method: Four hundred fifty (450) Spanish children with intellectual disability (ages 5-16) were assessed with the SIS-C Spanish. To test for measurement invariance and latent differences, the SIS-C Spanish standardization sample was linked to the SIS-C English normative sample. Models developed during the norming process were used to investigate measurement equivalence across age groups, differences in latent means, and differences in latent variances and standard deviations. Results: Findings suggested that all items on the SIS-C Spanish could reliably be used to measure support needs of children ages 5-16. When exploring age-related differences at the latent level, however, data showed latent mean differences in support need domain scores across age cohorts. Conclusions: The same set of items can be used to measure support needs in children ages 5-16, but age-related influences must be considered in developing norms for the SIS-C Spanish as well as in planning supports for children. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132051 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132047 La nueva concepción de discapacidad intelectual destaca la necesidad de adoptar enfoques holísticos ecológicocontextuales desde un enfoque inclusivo en la respuesta al alumnado que presenta esta condición. Los nuevos avances científicos en discapacidad intelectual y la tradición investigadora hacen necesaria una revisión de la legislación española actual en este aspecto. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la normativa que regula la atención a la diversidad del alumnado con discapacidad intelectual en el contexto educativo ordinario español desde educación infantil hasta bachillerato en las diferentes comunidades autónomas tomando como referencia el nuevo paradigma en discapacidad intelectual y el enfoque de derechos en esta población. La muestra de este estudio la compone la legislación vigente de etapa y de atención a la diversidad en cada región. El instrumento utilizado para su análisis ha sido una lista de comprobación de elaboración propia, la cual se aplicó en dos momentos diferentes mostrando un coeficiente de consistencia excelente (k = .97). Los resultados revelan la gran variabilidad existente entre regiones, la necesidad de adoptar modelos ecológico-contextuales de evaluación y respuesta educativa que mejoren el funcionamiento y la calidad de vida de este alumnado y la importancia de incorporar herramientas estandarizadas robustas que ayuden en la detección de las necesidades de apoyo del alumnado con discapacidad intelectual. Se concluye la necesidad de elaborar protocolos que articulen la atención a la diversidad, apoyados en el uso de herramientas robustas y que permitan la recogida e intercambio de datos y experiencias, fomentando el avance del conocimiento y las prácticas basadas en la evidencia; la urgencia de revisar el concepto de necesidades educativas especiales; y la importancia de abogar por enfoques multidimensionales que sitúen a la persona con discapacidad intelectual en el centro de su proceso educativo, para la mejora de su funcionamiento y calidad de vida. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132047 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132046 Support needs assessment instruments and recent research related to this construct have been more focused on adults with intellectual disability than on children. However, the design and implementation of Individualized Support Plans (ISP) must start at an early age. Currently, a project for the translation, adaptation and validation of the supports intensity scale for children (SIS-C) is being conducted in Spain. In this study, the internal structure of the scale was analyzed to shed light on the nature of this construct when evaluated in childhood. A total of 814 children with intellectual disability between 5 and 16 years of age participated in the study. Their support need level was assessed by the SIS-C, and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), including different hypotheses, was carried out to identify the optimal factorial structure of this scale. The CFA results indicated that a unidimensional model is not sufficient to explain our data structure. On the other hand, goodness-of-fit indices showed that both correlated first-order factors and higher-order factor models of the construct could explain the data obtained from the scale. Specifically, a better fit of our data with the correlated first-order factors model was found. These findings are similar to those identified in previous analyses performed with adults. Implications and directions for further research are discussed Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/132046 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55877 The article presents a critical review of inclusive education in Spain after the "Declaration of Salamanca". The authors, based on the analysis made by other authors in the book published by the University of Salamanca (INICO 2004), analyze the problems and difficulties faced in different regions of Spain. The conclusions of "a realiste" visión of the existing barriers to generalize the educational change towards an integrated and inclusive school. The development of a "chool for all" requires to overcome the problems indicated in this stydy. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55877 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55876 [EN]This study presents a new Spanish version of the Quality of Life Questionnaire (QOL.Q) (Schalock and Keith, 1993) for use with adults visual disability.; [ES]Este artículo presenta la nueva versión en español del Quality of Life Questionnaire (QOL.Q) de Schalock y Keith, 1993, para uso de adultos con discapacidad visual. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55876 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55875 [EN]Background: Assessing the quality of life (QOL) for families that include a person with a dissability have recently becone a major emphasis in cross-cultural QOL studies. The present study examined the reliability and validity of the Family Quality of Life Survey (FQOL) on a Spanish sample.Method and results: The sample comprise 385 families who were administered the FQOL in Cali, Columbia. The FQOL showed adequate temporal stability (r = o.68 on Importance and r = o.78 on Satisfaction) and excellent internal consistency: Cronbach's alpha of 0.96 for Importance and 0.95 for Satisfaction. The confirmatory factor analysis yielded high fit indices, thus confirming that the factor structure of the FQOL as adapted for Spanish people fitted the five-factor model proposed by the survey's authors.Conclusions: The study provides a valid instrument for the research of the QOL of those families that have a child with a disability within Spanish-speaking community.; [ES]El artículo trata de la asignación del QOL a familias con una persona con discapacidad mental. Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55875 2005-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55874 [EN]This article discusses the principles that should guide the measurement process, the major interrogatoires (i.e. who, what, when, where, why, and how) of QOL measurement, issues and procedures in the cross-cultural measurement of QOL, and the current uses of QOL data.; [ES]Este artículo discute los principios que deben guiar el proceso de medicion de la calidad de vida (QOL) , los principales interrogantes (quién, qué, cúando, dónde, por qué y cómo), resultados y procedimientos en la variante cultural de la medición de QOL y los usos de los datos de QOL. Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55874 2005-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55873 [EN]The article focuses on the implications of the quality of life concept to enhance services and supports for persons with intellectual disabilities. The first section presents a set of program principles, practices, and stards that are based on what the authors know about organization and system change, and the power of the QOL concept as a change agent. The second section, discusses ten quality improvement strategies that are based on research and experiences over the last two decades to improve performance and accountability of organizations and systems.; [ES]El artículo presenta las implicaciones del uso del concepto de calidad de vida para la mejora de los servicios y apoyos a personas con discapacidad intelectual. En primer lugar, se examinan un conjunto de principios, prácticas y estándares de programas dirigidos a sustanciar el cambio organizacional y de sistemas. En segundo lugar, se plantean diez estrategias de mejora de calidad procedentes de la investigación y experiencias aplicadas previamente, las cuales se consideran determinantes para la transformación e innovación actuales en los programas, servicios y apoyos. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55873 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55872 [EN]This study investigates what characteristics of supported employment may increase quality of life and if quality of life is higher in supported employment workers than in sheltered employment workers in Spain. Typicalnness, the degree to which the characteristics of a job are to the same as those of coworkers without a disability in the same company was considered as one of supported employment characteristics in the analysis.Method: Two groups were put together to obtain the data using two questionnaires that were administered by trained professionals. Correlational analysis of the data and MANOVA were also employed.Results: No differences were found between the two groups regarding quality of life, but results indicate that in supported employment high levels of typicalness are associated whit a higher quality of life, and that the handling of certain characteristics of suppot and the job, for example the hours of direct external support are related to enhancing the quality of life of the workers.Conclusions: Workers in supported employment show the same quality of life workers in sheltered employment centers.In Spain the greater the typicalness of the employment higher the quality of life. The implications of this for the amount of direct external support for workers with disability is that such support should be used only as absolutely necessary the minimum suppot necessary needed to encourage development. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55872 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55871 El Comité de Terminología y Clasificación de la Asociación Americana sobre Discapacidad Intelectual y Discapacidades del Desarrollo tiene dos objetivos principales al publicar este artículo : (a) compartir nuestras ideas sobre el constructo que subyace al término "discapacidad intelectual" (de ahora en adelante el "constructo de discapacidad intelectual") y su relación con el funcionamiento humano y (b) solicitar aportaciones desde el campo puesto que el Comité está preparando una propuesta para el próximo manual de Definición, Clasificación y Sistemas de Apoyos que seraá publicado en 2009 o 2010; The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Terminology and Classification Comittee has two primary purposes in publhising this Perspective: (a) to share our thinking about the construtc underlying the term intellectual disability (henceforth intellectual disability construct) and its relation to human functioning and (b) to ask for input from the field because the committee is preparing a proposal fot the upcoming Definition, Classification and Systems of Supprot manual, to be published in 2009 or 2010 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/55871 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z