title: Elaborating the AAIDD public policy framework.
abstract: The AAIDD's 11th edition of Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Support describes a framework for understanding the relationship between public policy and practice. The framework incorporates three inputs into public policy and practice affecting quality-of-life outcomes for individuals and families, society, and systems. The inputs are social factors, the core concepts of disability policy, and changing conceptualizations of disability. We accept the framework's basic premises, but we propose amendments to make the framework more useful for its stated purposes of elaborating on the "context" ( Schalock et al., 2010 , p. 17) that affects people with intellectual disability and "promot[ing] changes in public policy that will lead to the achievement of desired policy outcomes" ( Schalock et al., 2010 , p. 171).
authors.forename: Rud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Turnbull
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Stowe
mesh_terms: D002658:Developmental Disabilities; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D011640:Public Policy; D012952:Societies