"Occupational Therapy For Adults With Intellectual Disability

Occupational Therapy for Adults With Intellectual Disability provides occupational therapy practitioners and students with occupation-based solutions to serve and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities as well as their families and caregivers towards more self-determined authentic lives. There are few texts that exist within occupational therapy that support this population. Dr. Kimberly Bryze and the contributing authors are all occupational therapists who have or currently provide occupational therapy services to adults with intellectual disability in various settings. They bring their expertise in scholarship and offer thoughtful evidence-based approaches for practitioners to create change for individuals communities organizations and society. This text presents an occupational perspective of individuals with intellectual disability given its focus on the following: quality of living social well-being role competence occupational identity self-advocacy occupational justice Occupational Therapy for Adults with Intellectual Disability is ideal for occupational therapy educators who teach content related to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities occupational therapy practitioners who provide services to adults with intellectual disability in various clinical community and residential settings and occupational therapy students. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. The intentional occupational focus ensures that the content is consistent with recommended practice in current occupational therapy. Occupational therapy practitioners will look to this text to provide evidence-based interventions and when developing consultative programs for persons with intellectual disability across many different settings.