A Conceptual and Measurement Framework to Guide Policy Development and Systems Change

Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-72

  Schalock, Robert L ^a   Verdugo, Miguel Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Horizontal alignment; Intellectual disabilities; Organization level practices; Policy development; Program logic model; System level processes; Systems change; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858319747     PISSN: 17411122     EISSN: 17411130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-1130.2012.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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