ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the performance of developmentally handicapped adults in relation to work and to social, home living and allied skill areas, and to gain some knowledge about their own and sponsor's perceptions of their living conditions and their needs, aspirations and concerns. Quality of life includes, but is not equivalent to, people's life satisfaction, their happiness or their sense of control.Although efforts are often made for social interaction with developmentally handicapped persons, these arrangements involving visits by friends to the homes of handicapped persons often result in some preliminary interaction followed by conversation taking place between other non-handicapped adults who are present. In the agency which had the highest average client-day programme costs, staff spent the second highest amount of time on client training and the clients scored second highest on the Social Educational Adaptive Functioning Index scale.
