Roger StancliffeAssociate ProfessorRoger Stancliffe is a researcher in the intellectual disability field with a special interest in community living. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (1997-2007) in Sydney, Australia, and a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA.
His research interests include choice, self-determination, community living, retirement and community participation, Active Support, physical activity, individual planning, deinstitutionalisation, and cost effectiveness of services. His teaching interests involve topics related to people with intellectual disability, such as community living and Active Support. He has published over 80 research articles and chapters.
His most recent book is "Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities" (2005). He was Editor of the "Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability" from 2003 to 2008 and is a Consulting Editor to six international research journals on intellectual disability.
He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on intellectual disability. In 2002 he was appointed as a Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and in 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID).
In 2010, with colleagues from the University of Minnesota, he was awarded the awarded the NARRTC (formerly National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers) Best Paper Award for the most outstanding research paper published in 2009 by researchers from the 38 RRTCs in universities across the United States.
Organization: Research and Training Center on Community Living
E-mail: (
roger.stancliffe@sydney.edu.au )
Current Projects- Developing Exemplary Practices to Support Self-Determination
Numerous approaches have been developed to enhance the self-determination of persons with ID/DD. The majority of these have been t... (More)
- Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Interventions on the Self-Determination of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The purpose of this project is to learn about the exercise of self-determination among adults with intellectual and/or development... (More)
- The Impact of Environment on the Self-Determination of Adults with ID/DD
Over the past several years, many important systemic and environmental interventions intended to increase the self-determination o... (More)
- Policy, Environmental and Individual Factors Associated with Full Participation and Integration in a Large Multi-State Sample
This project will involve a secondary analysis of the integrated multi-state Community Living Outcomes database to examine the con... (More)
- Review and Synthesis of Research on Self-Determination and Inclusion
This project conducts an extensive review of current knowledge and practice in self-determination and full inclusion. This review ... (More)
- Active Support Interventions and Their Effect on Increased Participation of Persons with Severe Impairments
Active Support (AS) is an organizational intervention to enable direct support professionals (DSPs) in community settings to effec... (More)
- Increasing Friendships, Social Inclusion and Community Participation of Persons with ID/DD
This study will examine the effectiveness of two different approaches to supporting community participation, those based in human ... (More)
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