Other Support Products

For more than a decade, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Formerly AAMR) has lead the way in advocating a supports-based approach to defining, diagnosing, and classifying the condition of mental retardation. Through this effort, the association has developed the following tools and materials to assist professionals in determining practical support needs of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Guidelines for Including Persons with Disabilities: Supports Intensity Scale
Marc J. Tassé et al., 2005
This accompanying free Guide to the Supports Intensity Scale helps professionals understand how to best conduct interviews with people with disabilities and self-advocates in order to make the supports planning process inclusive and comprehensive.

Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum
Dennis H. Reid and Marsha Parsons, Second edition 2007
This Curriculum teaches proactive positive behavior support strategies to direct support professionals, fostering the principles of supports and person-centered planning.

Mental Retardation: Definition, Classification and Systems of Supports (10th edition)
Ruth A. Luckasson et al.
This definition Manual contains the only supports-based diagnostic system available for persons with significant cognitive disability.

Workbook: Retardation: Definition, Classification and Systems of Supports (10th edition)
Ruth A. Luckasson et al.
This 64-page companion workbook contains practical examples, questions for consideration, definitions of key terms, and an extended case study that helps implement the three-part process of diagnosis, classification, and development of a Supports Needs Profile.

Forms: Retardation: Definition, Classification and Systems of Supports (10th edition)
Ruth A. Luckasson et al.
Accompanying forms help with effective diagnosis, classification, and supports planning, and evaluation and will help you integrate the definition right away in your programs.