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General work skills, training or development: Any training for which an employee
would normally be expected to undertake in order to be able to carry out the core duties
associated with his / her employment.
Question 5.2.6
Leisure activities: Service for persons with intellectual disability, often in a facility that
provides activities and support, focusing on relaxation, amusement and social
interaction.
Transportation: A service provided to persons with intellectual disability making it
possible for them to travel out of their residence to take part in any social activity.
Assistive technology: Any item or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or
improve functional capabilities of individuals with disability.
Rights/Advocacy support: A combination of individual and social actions designed to
raise awareness and to gain political commitment, policy support, human rights
promotion, social acceptance and health systems support for intellectual disabilities
goals.
Question 5.3
Preventive intellectual disability services: All organized activities in the community to
prevent the occurrence as well as the evolution of intellectual disability, including the
timely application of means to provide information and education on the known causes
of intellectual disability, or etiology.
Question 5.4
Offenders with intellectual disability: A person with intellectual disability who has
been convicted of a crime by a court of law.
Question 5.5
Governmental intellectual disabilities protective system: A government based
protective supervision system for the protection of persons with intellectual disability and
their assets. This system oversees the protection of persons with intellectual disability
unable to take care of themselves, through appropriated measures to their condition and
situation, while ensuring that all decisions affecting their well-being and property reflect
their best interests, respect their rights and safeguard their autonomy. This type of
protective supervision can take the form of a curatorship, of a tutorship, of an advisor to
a person of full age or of a tutorship to a minor.
Question 6.1
Respite care: Provision of periodic relief to the usual family members and friends who
care for the person with intellectual disability. Trained parents or counsellors take care of
the person with intellectual disability for a brief period of time to give families relief from
the strain of caring for the person with intellectual disability. This type of care can be
provided in the home or in another location.
Home aid: Help at home provided to the family of a person with intellectual disabilities.
Examples include parent training, counselling, and working with family members to
identify, find, or provide other necessary help. The goal is to prevent the person with
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