Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD) occupies a unique niche among research journals focusing on individuals with extensive support needs. It was created in the mid-1970s when few, if any, journals specifically focused on the education of people with significant intellectual/developmental disabilities. The journal and the newly founded association that spawned it – the American Association for the Education of the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped, now called TASH – were unique for their time. The first president of the association, Norris G. Haring, sought to find a voice and a vehicle to advocate for people who were not recognized by society as the important members that they are (Haring, 1976). In those efforts, the precursor to TASH sought to bring together advocacy, policy, and research as interconnected and mutually synergistic efforts. The association’s journal, now called RPSD, was the evidence-based research vehicle for which new findings and breakthroughs explicitly designed to improve the quality of life of people with extensive support needs could be disseminated (Harmon & Haring, 1976).

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重度残障人士研究与实践( RPSD ) 在专注于有广泛支持需求的个人的研究期刊中占有独特的地位。它创建于 1970 年代中期，当时很少有期刊专门关注严重智力/发育障碍者的教育。该杂志和催生它的新成立的协会——美国严重/严重残疾人教育协会，现在称为 TASH——在他们的时代是独一无二的。该协会的第一任主席诺里斯·哈林 (Norris G. Haring) 试图找到一种声音和一种工具来为那些未被社会认可为重要成员的人们进行宣传（哈林，1976 年）。在这些努力中，前身TASH力求将宣传、政策和研究结合在一起，形成相互关联和相互协同的努力。该协会的期刊，现在称为RPSD，是一种基于证据的研究工具，可以传播明确旨在改善有广泛支持需求的人们的生活质量的新发现和突破（Harmon & Haring，1976）。