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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019): Disabilità e Qualità della Vita: percorsi e progetti per l’inclusione universitaria e sociale

Quality of Life and intellectual disability: Implementing the POS Scale in a case study

Submitted
aprile 23, 2019
Published
2019-06-12

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the combination between Quality of Life and Adulthood, focusing on the analysis of a case study. The considerations concerning the theoretical framework of reference, or the epistemological frame of the Quality of Life, allow to draw the more or less satisfactory perceptions on the life of an adult with intellectual disabilities, aiming to log regressions and improvements after a longitudinal trail that lasted two years.

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