Choosing and choice making are not the same: Asking "what do you want for lunch?" is not self-determination

Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-88

  Agran, Martin ^a   Storey, Keith ^b   Krupp, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice making; employment; informed choices; intellectual disabilities; self determination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DETERMINATION; SKILL RETENTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 78649518242     PISSN: 10522263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JVR-2010-0517     Document Type: Article

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