Ruth Luckasson

Biographic Data

ID3450242
NAMERuth Luckasson
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMELuckasson
SIGNATURELUCKASSON R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Mexico
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Supporting the Goal of Shared Citizenship

    Karrie A Shogren, Marc J Tassé et al.ARTICLEIntellectual and Developmental…2026

    The shared citizenship paradigm envisions, requires, and supports the engagement and full participation of people with disabilities as equal, respected, valued, participating, and contributing members of all aspects of society. The goals of shared citizenship are to enhance human dignity and autonomy, facilitate human endeavor, and maximize human engagement. This article describes how the goals of shared citizenship can be supported through a gre…

  • An Overview of Intellectual Disability

    Robert L Schalock, Ruth Luckasson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal on Intellectual…2021

    The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has published terminology and classification manuals since 1921. Their goals over the last 100 years have been consistent: To fulfill the Association's continued responsibility to be the primary repository of intellectual disability-related research and best practices; to publish a scientific definition of intellectual disability (ID) and its assumptions based on rese…

  • Defining, diagnosing, classifying, and planning supports for people with intellectual disability

    Open AccessRobert L Schalock, Ruth Luckasson et al.ARTICLESiglo Cero2021

    Significant international work in the field of intellectual disability (ID) over the last decade has resulted in an emerging consensus regarding the definition of ID, the criteria used to diagnose a person with ID, the classification of individuals who have been diagnosed with ID, and the planning of individualized supports for people with ID. This article describes that emerging consensus

  • Going beyond Environment to Context

    Open AccessRobert L Schalock, Ruth Luckasson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This article discusses the processes and implications of going beyond environment to context. The article (a) provides an operational definition of context; (b) describes a multidimensional model of context that views context as being multilevel, multifactorial, and interactive; (c) describes how conceptual models of quality of life, human rights, and human functioning can be used in conjunction with the multidimensional model of context to ident…

  • Leveraging the Power of Context in Disability Policy Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

    Open AccessKarrie A Shogren, Ruth Luckasson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Disability Policy…2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    The article provides an overview and integration of work examining the multiple applications of context to enhancing personal outcomes, with a focus on how a clearer understanding of context can be leveraged in disability policy development, implementation, and evaluation. Specifically, a clear operational definition of context and an empirically based conceptual model of context are presented, followed by an approach to the analysis or measureme…

  • Inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream child development research

    Maurice A Feldman, Susan M Battin et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2012Cited by: 7References: 1

    This study investigated whether children with disabilities are excluded from mainstream child development research. Fifteen per cent of 533 articles from Child Development and Developmental Psychology (1996–2010) were randomly selected. The exclusion rate was 89.9% when no mention of participants with disabilities was interpreted as exclusion and 66.7% when only studies mentioning disabilities were surveyed; 74% of studies did not provide justifi…

  • Conceptualizing Supports and the Support Needs of People With Intellectual Disability

    John R Thompson, Valerie J Bradley et al.ARTICLEIntellectual and Developmental…2009Cited by: 15

    This is the third in a series of perspective articles (Schalock et al., 2007; Wehmeyer et al., 2008) from the Terminology and Classification Committee of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). The purpose of these articles is to share our thoughts on critical issues associated with terminology, definition, and classification in the field of intellectual disability and to seek input from the field as we pr…