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Independent
Being able to manage on one's own without assistance or support.
Intensive interaction
An approach that can be used by everyone involved in supporting a child or adult to interact with other people and develop communication skills in a natural, relaxed and enjoyable way.
Normalisation
Making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society.
Personal development
Activities designed to improve talents, potential, employability, and wealth.
Socialising
The activity of mixing socially with others.
Alternative termsSocialisationWelfare
The wellbeing of individuals or groups and service provision related to their wellbeing such as education, health, housing, social security, and social services.
Wellbeing
The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
Will and preference
A manifestation of a person's deeply held, reasonably stable and coherent personal beliefs, values, commitments and conception and their greater liking for one alternative over another.
Wishes
A greater liking for one alternative over another or others.
Campus
A collection of buildings on one site that provide accommodation and recreational facilities.
Community
Usually seen as typified by social relationships based on commonality, either derived from living in a particular geographical location, such as a defined urban neighbourhood or a village, or sharing a particular interest(s) or goal(s), for example, on the basis of ethnicity, gender, religion, or membership of a professional association.
Congregated setting
Living arrangements where several people share a single residence or where the living arrangements are campus‐based.