Supporting Quality of Life for Individuals with IDD

Course Code: REL-IDD-0-SQL

Hours: 1

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025

Learning Objectives:
Explain quality of life in the context of IDD services.
Identify the eight quality of life core domains.
Describe strategies to enhance quality of life.

Outline:
Section 1: Introduction

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Section 2: What is Quality of Life?

What is Quality of Life?

Models of Disability

Rethinking Disability

Basic Human Needs

QOL Basics

QOL Core Domains

Digging Deeper into the Core Domains

Measuring QOL

Assessing QOL

Observing QOL

Review

Summary

Section 3: Supporting Quality of Life

Service Quality

System of Supports

Troy’s Life

Adding Supports to Troy’s Life

Types of Supports

Support Strategies

Show Respect

Support Choice

Problem-Solve

Advocate

Person-Centered Planning

Richard’s Home

Summary

Section 4: Conclusion

Summary

Course Contributor

References

Congratulations!

Instructor: Katy Kunst, MBA, QIDP

Katy Kunst received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Master of Business Administration from Elon University. She has 15 years of experience serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their supporters, including roles as direct support professional, program director, and training facilitator. She has created and facilitated training on topics including non-violent crisis interventions, person-centered planning, cultural competence, quality service delivery, regulatory compliance, and a variety of topics related to IDD services.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Direct Support Professionals; in the following settings: Intellectual Developmental Disabilities.

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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.

Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.