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The ITINERIS scale on the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities: development, pilot studies and application at a country level in S outh A merica
Author(s) -
Aznar A. S.,
González Castañón D.,
Olate G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2012.01651.x
Subject(s) - intellectual disability , proxy (statistics) , psychology , scale (ratio) , gerontology , affect (linguistics) , self advocacy , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , communication , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , machine learning
Background The ITINERIS scale on the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities ( ISRPID ) was developed to measure the extent to which people with intellectual disabilities ( ID ) exercise their rights. Method The ISRPID was produced through a virtual D elphi group with 37 professionals and relatives of people with ID from four continents and was refined in small pilot groups with persons with ID in A rgentina. It has 30 items and can be self‐administered or completed by a proxy. Versions in three languages ( E nglish, S panish and P ortuguese) are available. Following its development, the ISRPID was applied in C hile to 705 persons with ID and to a control group of 524 college students without ID . Results Statistical analysis showed that family relationships, community participation, living arrangements and level of disability affect the experience of rights among people with ID . Importantly, with structured supports, people with ID appear able to exercise their rights to a level comparable to that of their peers without ID . Conclusions With further development, the ISRPID may be an appropriate scale to monitor the exercise of rights contained in the U nited N ations C onvention on the R ights of P ersons with D isabilities at an individual or group level.