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RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 18-29Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.008
Keywords
Social inclusion; Intellectual disabilities; Developmental disabilities; Interpersonal relationships; Community participation; Ecological model
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- Hegarty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by Michigan State University, USA
- DOCTRID Research Institute (Daughters of Charity - Technology, Research Into Disability) Dublin, Ireland
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Social inclusion is an important goal for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, families, service providers; and policymakers; however, the concept of social inclusion remains unclear, largely due to multiple and conflicting definitions in research and policy. We define social inclusion as the interaction between two major life domains: interpersonal relationships and community participation. We then propose an ecological model of social inclusion that includes individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and socio-political factors. We identify four areas of research that our ecological model of social inclusion can move forward: (1) organizational implementation of social inclusion; (2) social inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities living with their families, (3) social inclusion of people along a broader spectrum of disability, and (4) the potential role of self-advocacy organizations in promoting social inclusion. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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