Publisher Summary Individuals with disabilities need to know how to identify potential risks
and hazards and to perform safety skills appropriate to them. Many individuals with …

This guidebook provides behavioral-instructional strategies for teaching essential personal
safety skills and promoting overall well-being to persons with developmental disabilities …

Research and reports concerning the incidence of abuse and neglect indicate that
individuals with disabilities are at equal or probably greater risk for physical and sexual …

Objectives This paper provides an overview of the literature on assessing and teaching
safety skills to children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities across …

This review synthesizes the empirical literature (1976-2006) focusing on teaching personal
safety skills to persons with intellectual disabilities. Thirty-six investigations were identified …

Community safety skills for people with intellectual disabilities to ensure personal safety and
are valued by individuals with intellectual disability and their carers alike, although …

Using a participatory research approach, we enlisted 12 US Centers for Independent Living
(CILs) to recruit and enroll 170 adults with intellectual disability (ID) to be randomized to …

Safety skills are an important but often neglected area of training for persons with
developmental disabilities (DD). The present study reviewed the literature on teaching safety …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Individuals with disabilities experience higher rates of abuse
than the nondisabled. Few evidence‐based prevention interventions have been published …

Given that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at an
increased risk for injury, teaching safety skills in individuals with IDD is critical. The current …