NIS: SIS-C- Supports Intensity Scale for Children

2010

The Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) for Children provides a standardized procedure and a reliable and valid means to measure the relative intensity of support needs of children with intellectual disabilities and related developmental disabilities. An intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. These limitations create a mismatch between what a child is able to do and what the environment requires (for a child of a similar age and from a similar culture), which results in needing types and patterns of support that most other children do not need. Develop, validate, and standardize on a national sample this individual measure of intensity of support needs for children with developmental disabilities.

Supports, SIS, intellectual disability, supports intensity

Performing Research or Evaluation

Education & Early Intervention

Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN

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National

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