Journal on Developmental Disabilities
Le journal sur les handicaps du développement

Volume 10, No. 1

Quality of Life for Children with Developmental Disabilities:
A New Conceptual Framework

Rebecca Renwick, Ann Fudge Schormans, and Buga Zekovic

Table of Contents

Editors / Review Board / Authors this Issue

Articles / Abstracts

Living and Aging

Auditory Discriminations and the ABLA Test

Hope in Families

Teaching Language and Autism

Community Women's Circle

Maltreatment and Life Stressors in Single Mothers

Depression, Temperament, in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome

Successful Aging of Women with Intellectual Disabilities

Dual Diagnosis Services

Relationship Power Inequities

Service for Children and Youth

Aggression: Symptom of Mood Destabilization

Quality of Life for Children

Integration in Social Activities

Hearing Impairment in Adults with PDD

Parental Stress and Adaptive Functioning

Stimulus Modalities in Choice Presentations

Prenatal Psychological Processes

Evaluation of a Behavioural Therapy Group

Educating About Acquired Brain Injury

Abstract

Although there are frequent references to quality of life for children with developmental disabilities made in the context of government policy, service programs, and interventions by professionals, the construct has not been well defined and conceptualized in the literature. Accordingly, the research reported here describes the qualitative methods used to develop a conceptual framework of quality of life for this group of children. The major elements of the emergent conceptual framework and its significance are also outlined.

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