- Author
- Overboe, C. J. | Wang, Y. Y.
- Title
- Behavioral and Physical Characteristics of Developmentally Disabled Individuals.
- Coporate
- Wisconsin Univ., Madison
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS GCR 79-167, March 1979, 97 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-79019
- Keywords
- ambulatory people | autism | cerebral palsy | deafness | developmentally disabled | epilepsy | fire safety | board and care homes | handicapped | mental retardation
- Abstract
- A vast body of scientific research exits with regard to the conditions considered as the developmental disabilities. The purpose of this report is twofold. First, it describes the consensus of available research on the functioning capacities of developmentally disabled persons. Second, it represents an effort to present the information in a concise and usable format. The goal of the study is to provide a baseline of information to assist planners, concultants and decision-makers in determining realistic requirements for life safety in community-based group homes for the developmentally disabled. The paper is divided into three major sections. The first part provides an overview of the concept of developmental disabilities and discusses its prevalence. A section on the individual characteristics of mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism is included. The second major part contains two sections. One describes the characteristics found in the current population of group home residents. The next section provides information on individuals presently residing in institutions for the mentally retarded and the developmentally disabled who may form part of the future population in community housing. The last major part provides a summary of descriptive data regarding severely retarded individuals.