Enhancing life outcomes through self-determination

This is a current project.

Description

Self-Determination refers to the process of being in charge of one's own life to the degree than a person and that person's family believe is important. Self-Determination involves the capacity, the needed supports, and the opportunity provided for making choices and decisions. These choices and decisions may be related to where a person lives, whether the person has a job, and how the person spends leisure time.

This project aims to support the efforts to build a coalition to support the creation of a national self-determination training initiative and to support the large scale implementation and sustainability of the self-determination training initiative.

Project Administration

Michael Wehmeyer, principal investigator

Project Contact

Michael Wehmeyer, Ph.D., Director
KU Center on Developmental Disabilities
3101 Haworth
1200 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7601
wehmeyer@ku.edu
785-864-0723 (phone)
785-864-0723 (fax)

This is a project of :

KU Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD)

In collaboration with :

University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)

Funded by:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Send corrections/comments/questions to lifespan@ku.edu


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