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Neidorf, Jon, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration, 2023
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are overrepresented in the criminal legal system. Further, many people with IDD move between large state-run institutions and the criminal legal system. In 2019, for example, 29% of people moving into large state-run institutions came from jails, prisons, and other correctional…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Institutionalized Persons
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Lulinski, Amie; Heller, Tamar – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The study's aim was to explore the capacity of community-based providers of residential supports and services to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who transitioned out of state-operated institutions into community-based settings. Receiving agency survey results from 65 agencies and individual-level variables of 2,499…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Community Organizations, Intellectual Disability
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Angelika H. Claussen; Joseph R. Holbrook; Helena J. Hutchins; Lara R. Robinson; Jeanette Bloomfield; Lu Meng; Rebecca H. Bitsko; Brenna O'Masta; Audrey Cerles; Brion Maher; Margaret Rush; Jennifer W. Kaminski – Prevention Science, 2024
Parenting and family environment have significant impact on child development, including development of executive function, attention, and self-regulation, and may affect the risk of developmental disorders including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This paper examines the relationship of parenting and family environment factors…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Family Environment, Developmental Disabilities
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Stancliffe, Roger J.; Tichá, Renáta; Pettingell, Sandra L.; Houseworth, James; Bershadsky, Julie – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Deinstitutionalization research shows better services and outcomes relative to institutional life but has not compared formerly institutionalised and never-institutionalised service users. Methods: We used propensity score matching (PSM) to match formerly institutionalised and never-institutionalised participants on six personal…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Facilities
Larson, Sheryl A., Ed. – Institute on Community Integration, 2022
The large, often miserable, state-run institutions that used to house people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) are closing as people with IDD increasingly live in community. Most states are actively working to close the remaining large state-run and non-state IDD institutions. If current trends continue, the remaining state-run…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Residential Institutions, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Matheson, Flora I.; Dastoori, Parisa; Whittingham, Lisa; Calzavara, Andrew; Keown, Leslie A.; Durbin, Anna; Kouyoumdjian, Fiona G.; Lin, Elizabeth; Volpe, Tiziana; Lunsky, Yona – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: There is little research with people who experience intellectual/developmental disabilities and imprisonment. Methods: The study linked health and correctional data to examine prevalence of intellectual/developmental disabilities and health and correctional characteristics among adults experiencing their first federal incarceration…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Olivia R. Hester; Ashley V. Taconet; Allison Lombardi – Journal of Correctional Education, 2024
Justice-involved youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at an increased risk of recidivism compared to their peers with and without disabilities. Due to the complexity and unique needs of youth with IDD served in the juvenile justice system, transition supports and services must be individualized and youth-centered…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Educational Legislation, Equal Education