Evaluation of the quality of life in persons with autism

  1. José Luis Cuesta Gómez
  2. Raquel de la Fuente Anunciba
  3. Rosa Mª Santamaría Conde
Zeitschrift:
International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology: INFAD. Revista de Psicología

ISSN: 0214-9877

Datum der Publikation: 2012

Titel der Ausgabe: PSICOLOGÍA Y VALORES EN EL MUNDO ACTUAL

Ausgabe: 3

Nummer: 1

Seiten: 87-92

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

The search for quality of life and the trend towards continual improvement has today become a true reference which guides most social organizations. This achievement allows us to find coherence and to bring together practices based on an understanding and on the consideration of the person as the centre of all actions. The support offered to persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have not been affected by this concept of quality, due to the serious difficulties associated with this disorder and that affect the main areas of personal development. This requires that organizations provides tools and resources to ensure the quality of support services. The resulting Guide of Indicators for Quality of Life, following a process of validation, is an evaluation instrument from an objective perspective. The instrument is made up of 68 indicators grouped into 6 areas. This tool is an attempt to bring a reference frame for those organizations that want to grapple with the challenge of introducing quality of life based models and as an incentive for all those who take on the challenge and hope for advances towards new ways of enriching the quality of support for persons with ASD.

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