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Choice and Control within Family Relationships: The Lived Experience of Adults with Intellectual Disability
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Curryer, Bernadette; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Dew, Angela; Wiese, Michele Y. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Increased choice and control is a driving force of current disability policy in Australia for people with disability and their families. Yet little is known of how adults with intellectual disability (ID) actually experience choice and control within their family relationships. We used interpretative phenomenological analysis of individual,…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Intellectual Disability, Adults, Independent Living
Implementation of Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports for Adults with Intellectual And/Or Developmental Disabilities in Kansas
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Williamson, Heather J.; Perkins, Elizabeth A.; Levin, Bruce L.; Baldwin, Julie A.; Lulinski, Amie; Armstrong, Mary I.; Massey, Oliver T. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Many adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) can access health and long-term services and supports (LTSS) through Medicaid. States are reforming their Medicaid LTSS programs from a fee-for-service model to a Medicaid managed LTSS (MLTSS) approach, anticipating improved quality of care and reduced costs, although there is…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Access to Health Care
"My Voice Counts, Too": Voting Participation among Individuals with Intellectual Disability
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Agran, Martin; MacLean, William E., Jr.; Arden Kitchen, Katherine Anne – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Despite a strong societal commitment to ensuring that individuals with intellectual disability (ID) fully participate in their communities, few people with ID vote. Little is known about voting experiences from the perspective of people with ID. In-person, semistructured interviews were conducted with 28 adults with ID (M[subscript age] = 37…
Descriptors: Voting, Citizen Participation, Intellectual Disability, Adults