MRDD Research Reviews special issue: public policy aspects of the developmental disabilities

October 2, 2007

Volume 13, Issue 2 (2007)

Special Issue: Public Policy Aspects of the Developmental Disabilities

Issue Edited by Susan Parish, Glenn T. Fujiura

Link to the online Journal here.

 

Articles in the Current Issue

• Editorial: Policies that shape the intellectual disabilities service system
  Susan L. Parish, Glenn T. Fujiura
  
• Poverty and people with intellectual disabilities
  Eric Emerson
  
• Federal family and disability policy: Special relevance for developmental disabilities
  H. Rutherford Turnbull III, Matthew J. Stowe, John Agosta, Ann P. Turnbull, M. Suzanne Schrandt, John F. Muller
  
• The next exclusion debate: Assessing technology, ethics, and intellectual disability after the human genome project
  Kelly M. Munger, Carol J. Gill, Kelly E. Ormond, Kristi L. Kirschner
  
• Issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
  Paul T. Shattuck, Scott D. Grosse
  
• Aging family caregivers: Policies and practices
  Tamar Heller, Joe Caldwell, Alan Factor
  
• The implications of no child left behind for students with developmental disabilities
  Shawnee Y. Wakeman, Diane M. Browder, Irene Meier, Ann McColl
  
• Residential supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  K. Charlie Lakin, Roger J. Stancliffe
  
• Translating policy principles into practice to improve health care access for adults with intellectual disabilities: A research review of the past decade
  Gloria L. Krahn, Charles E. Drum
  
• Washington rises: Public financial support for intellectual disability in the United States, 1955-2004
  David Braddock
  
• The direct support workforce in community supports to individuals with developmental disabilities: Issues, implications, and promising pactices
  Amy Hewitt, Sheryl Larson
  
• Emerging policy challenges in intellectual disabilities
  Glenn T. Fujiura, Susan L. Parish