Propositions for Race-Based Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics

INTRODUCTION Those working today with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often not aware of the dark side of our history concerning the treatment of this population and why we, some 150 years ago, made institutions or state schools for them (1). Maybe we have forgotten or chosen to forget something that we were not taught in school, and it is likely that our ...

Newborn Screening for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Male Health

1 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Clalit Health Services, Yaski Community Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel *Correspondence: jmerrick@za...

Residential supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This article reviews the current and changing status of residential supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). It examines four major trends in those supports: (1) Decreasing use of larger institutions and increasing use of community housing; (2) Decreasing size among community settings; (3) Increasing numbers of people living in homes that they themselves ow...

Parental supports for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The concept of supports is crucial in the lives of all people, especially for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In fact, the introduction of the idea of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as needing supports was a crucial step for the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), because this concept is different fro...