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Identifier	Thesis 1501
Author	Papa, Joseph L
Title	Effectiveness of Supported Living Arrangements on the level of independence of the developmentally disabled / Joseph L. Papa
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	1998
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Supported Living Arrangements (SLAs) are residential programs designed to facilitate the integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community. Clients of these programs live in independent apartments and receive approximately twenty hours per week of staff support and counseling in order to learn and practice the skills needed to live in a non institutional setting. The goal of the SLAs is to increase the clients' level of independence by (1) developing their daily skills, (2) increasing their interaction with individuals and agencies in the community, and (3) decreasing the amount of staff supervision provided by the programs. This retrospective study investigates the effect of SLAs on the clients' level of independence as measured by scores on five indices: an Independent Living Skills (ILS) assessment, vocational training evaluations, teaching program evaluations, the number of incident reports filed, and the number of staff hours per week allotted to each resident. Scores on these variables, collected every six months, were compared over a four year time period: the two year period after clients entered the SLAs versus the two years prior to admission, when clients resided in group homes. The data was obtained from the existing records of fourteen SLA residents living in one region of the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation. No significant differences were found between the pre-SLA and post-SLA periods on four of the five indices (ILS, vocational programs, teaching programs, and incident reports). For staff hours, there was a significant decrease in the number of hours from pre- to post-SLA conditions. While much of this drop reflects a change from 24 hour to part-time staff coverage, there was an additional significant decline in hours from the first to later SLA periods. Factors which may have limited the study are discussed and possible explanation for the results are explored.
Subject	Developmentally disabled -- Housing -- Connecticut Housing policy -- Connecticut
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Goldstein, Marc B.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	39977890
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