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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Residential Transitions among Adults with Intellectual Disability across 20 Years
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Woodman, Ashley C.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Anderson, Kristy A.; Esbensen, Anna J. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The present study addresses critical gaps in the literature by examining residential transitions among 303 adults with intellectual disability (ID) over 10 years (Part 1) and 75 adults with Down syndrome over 20 years (Part 2). All adults lived at home at the start of the study, but many moved to a variety of settings. Several characteristics of…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Adults, Mental Retardation, Down Syndrome
Long-Term Impact of Parental Well-Being on Adult Outcomes and Dementia Status in Individuals with Down Syndrome
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Esbensen, Anna J.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Silverman, Wayne – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Parental characteristics were significant predictors of health, functional abilities, and behavior problems in adults with Down syndrome ("n" ?=? 75) over a 22-year time span, controlling for initial levels and earlier changes in these outcomes. Lower levels of behavior problems were predicted by improvements in maternal depressive…
Descriptors: Parents, Individual Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems
Accounting for the "Down Syndrome Advantage"
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Esbensen, Anna J.; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
The authors examined factors that could explain the higher levels of psychosocial well being observed in past research in mothers of individuals with Down syndrome compared with mothers of individuals with other types of intellectual disabilities. The authors studied 155 mothers of adults with Down syndrome, contrasting factors that might validly…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Well Being, Mothers, Influences
Comparisons between Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Individuals with Down Syndrome in Adulthood
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Esbensen, Anna J.; Bishop, Somer; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Greenberg, Jan S.; Taylor, Julie Lounds – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
Differences between 70 adults with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability and 70 age-matched adults with Down syndrome were examined on variables indicative of independence in adult life. Adults with autism spectrum disorder had less residential independence and social contact with friends, had more limited functional abilities and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Autism, Down Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorders