International Consulting in Disability Support Services

creating value from knowledge

Supporting persons with (intellectual) disabilities requires knowledge and skills that are congruent with international and evidence based standards.

Valid models and instruments (e.g. ICF, AAIDD, SIS, QoL) play a pivotal role in policy and service efficacy.

We offer workshops and training programs for students, support  practitioners, support services managers and policy makers.

• Using and applying the SIS®
• AAIDD model for interdisciplinary assessment and supports
• Quality assessment (client, family and staff perception of service quality)
• Quality improvement

SIS® and AAIDD system Training Courses & Workshops

• SIS® trainings: (1) Basic training to qualify as an interviewer to administer the  Supports Intensity Scale (SIS®) . (2) Train-the-Trainer course to qualify as a SIS basic training instructor. (3) Taylor made programs on the planing of supports and assessment of support needs intensity.   

Countries using SIS® are:  Canada, Spain, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, Japan, Iceland, Korea and Portugal.

• Workshops and training programs on the use and application of the AAIDD system of diagnosis, classification and supports in intellectual disability.

'Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports' is the eleventh edition of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ reference manual of definitions. Assembled by a committee of eighteen practicing experts and grounded in research spanning the past seven years, critiques of the tenth edition, and feedback from the field, Intellectual Disability covers the diagnosis and classification of intellectual disability, systems of supports (including prevention) for those with intellectual disability, implications that the latest research has for public policy, education, and support provider organizations, and much more. An excellent, up-to-date reference enthusiastically recommended for college library collections and the resource shelves of aspiring and practicing psychologists.'

   Consultancy 

• Quality Improvement projects involve assessment of service performance from the perspective of clients, their family and support professionals. Our projects are based on responsive methodology (Abma & Widdershoven) and feature our unique 'Quality Cube©' model. Assessment procedures take into account service content, service facilitating conditions and service relationships. Outcome based Continuous Quality Improvement interventions guarantee effective results. The Quality Cube© model has been especially developped to allow broad-spectrum data collection. Quality-Improvement-Records© are simple and practical tools to implement quality improvement actions.
• Strategic policy development and evaluation in disability services using state-of-the-art health care models. How to deliver support services in a changing environment.

For more information, please contact us!

Go to the Contact page of this website or send an e-mail to BTC@buntinx.org

 

Contact

P.O. Box 1684

NL-6201 BR  MAASTRICHT (Netherlands)

contact@buntinx.org

Wiley-Blackwell publishers has announced that the article 'Models of Disability, Quality of Life and Individualized Supports: Implications for Professional Practice in Intellectual Disability' by Wil Buntinx and Robert Schalock is being one of most cited papers from the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities.

With persmission of the publisher, this paper can be downloaded HERE.