INTRODUCTION

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON COMMUNITY INTEGRATION THIRD EDITION

INTRODUCTION

This Annotated Bibliography on Community Integration, Third Edition lists many of the best available resources on community integration for people with developmental and other disabilities. It is meant to be a resource for people with disabilities, parents and family members, advocates and friends, direct service providers, administrators, and policy makers who are interested in promoting the participation of people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of community life. It presents resources applicable to many disability groups and represents an extensive revision and updating of the Annotated Bibliography on Community Integration prepared by the Center on Human Policy's Community Integration Project in 1987 and revised in 1990.

Selection Process

Materials for both editions were initially identified by computerized searches of the ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center), NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health), and MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System) databases and a review of (a) bibliographies published by the American Association on Mental Retardation, ERIC, NARIC (National Rehabilitation Information Center), the Beach Center, the Institute on Community Integration (University of Minnesota), the University Affiliated Program (UAP) on Developmental Disabilities (University of Illinois at Chicago), the Institute on Disability (University of New Hampshire), and other centers engaged in work in the area of community integration; (b) publication lists of major publishers and research centers; and (c) the nominations of the staff and associates of the National Resource Center on Community Integration at the Center on Human Policy. Materials culled from this first step were then individually reviewed for inclusion based on the criteria outlined below.

Selection Criteria

The materials identified for this bibliography clearly focus on inclusion for people with severe disabilities. We evaluated each resource for the degree to which it reflected the principles of the Center on Human Policy's National Resource Center on Community Integration:

All people with developmental disabilities, including those with the most severe disabilities, belong in the community.

Agencies and programs should provide the services and supports people with developmental disabilities need to participate in typical neighborhoods, work settings, and community environments.

Agencies and programs should support children to live with families and adults to live in typical homes in the community.

Agencies and programs should foster the development of relationships between people with developmental disabilities and other community members.

Programs and services provided to people with developmental disabilities should be non-aversive, oriented toward the development of practical life skills, and respectful of personal choices.

Parents and people with disabilities themselves should be involved in the design, operation, and monitoring of services.

For this revision, we included books, monographs, and unpublished but publicly available documents. (Relevant journal articles are compiled separately, in Community Integration Abstracts, published by the Center on Human Policy.) For the most part, we eliminated materials that reflected a facility-based point of view, even those that use language implying a community integration philosophy. We identified many materials that promote a "support" rather than a "program" paradigm; that is, they discuss ways of supporting individuals to express and carry out their own choices and preferences for where and with whom they will work, learn, play, and live. We feel that the materials included here reflect a coherent vision of the opportunities people with severe disabilities should have today. We also want to note that the field continues to change, as do the visions of people with disabilities and their families. We hope that some of the resources included here reflect the visions of tomorrow.

Organization of This Bibliography

Much of this bibliography is divided into sections that reflect different areas in the lives of people with disabilities. We hope that readers will realize that no person's life can be divided neatly into domains, and that no section of this bibliography can stand alone. Within each section, the materials are organized alphabetically by author.

Acknowledgments

The editors would like to thank all of the contributors to this edition, including Steve Taylor, Bonnie Shoultz, Perri Harris, Julia Searl, Susan O'Connor and Marj Olney. Special thanks go to Debbie Simms and to Rachael Zubal for putting the document together, organizing all the pieces into a workable whole. Appreciation is also extended to James Knoll, who edited the first edition in 1987 and to Bonnie Shoultz, who edited the second edition.

This bibliography was prepared with support from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), awarded to the Center on Human Policy, Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation, School of Education, Syracuse University under Cooperative Agreement No. H133D50037. The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Department of Education and no official endorsement should be inferred.
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