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Evidence-Based Early Home Visiting for Mothers and Parents with Intellectual Disability: Home Visitor Perceptions and Practices
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West, Allison L.; Dibble, Kate E. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Evidence-based maternal, infant, and early home visiting (EBHV) is a potential strategy to support parent and child health and well-being among families headed by a parent with an intellectual disability (ID). Little is known about the capacity of EBHV programs to meet the needs of parents with ID effectively. This study examined home visitor…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Home Visits, Community Health Services
Restraint, Restrictive Intervention, and Seclusion of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Friedman, Carli; Crabb, Caitlin – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Restraint, restrictive interventions, and seclusion are hotly contested practices with inconclusive evidence of their effectiveness. Because the use of restraint and seclusion on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is controversial and its effectiveness doubtable, this study was conducted to explore if and how they were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Isolation, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Participant Direction for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Medicaid Home and Community Based Services Waivers
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Friedman, Carli – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Participant direction allows people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and/or their families to direct services; in doing so, participant direction shifts participants from passive recipients to active consumers. Medicaid encourages, but does not require, states to allow participant direction. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Health Insurance, Expenditures
Satisfaction and Sense of Well Being among Medicaid ICF/MR and HCBS Recipients in Six States
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Stancliffe, Roger J.; Lakin, K. Charlie; Taub, Sarah; Chiri, Giuseppina; Byun, Soo-yong – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Self-reported satisfaction and sense of well-being were assessed in a sample of 1,885 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities receiving Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) and Intermediate Care Facility (ICF/MR) services in 6 states. Questions dealt with such topics as loneliness, feeling afraid at home and in one's…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Well Being, Day Programs, Developmental Disabilities