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Show-Me College to Build Better Resources for College-Bound Students with IDD
 More and more students with intellectual and developmental disabilities are going to college, thanks to legislation like the Individuals with Disabilities ACT of 1975 and the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act, which authorized the creation of comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs, and made financial aid available. The Show-Me College website is being developed to provide information and resources about college-going opportunities in Missouri for students, families, educators and counselors. Read more...
Growing Self-Advocacy in the Heartland
 Since 2014, the Center Disabilities and Development (Iowa’s UCEDD) has actively participated in a collaborative known as the Heartland Self-Advocacy Resource Network (HSRN). Iowa teamed up with UCEDDs from three other midwestern states—Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri—to grow self-advocacy movements in the region. Read more...
HDI Introduces New Mental Health Project: Merge
The University of Kentucky Human Development Institute introduces a new project: Merge. The project will strengthen the existing training framework serving Kentuckians with co-occurring mental health, and intellectual and developmental disabilities (MHIDD). By evolving current training, Merge aims to increase and improve the application of person-centered services and referral systems. Read more...
UNH IOD to Lead Development of New Children's Behavioral Health Resource Center
The NH Executive Council approved a $4.3 million, three-year contract to the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability (IOD) to develop a new Children’s Behavioral Health Resource Center (CBHRC). Working in collaboration with other institutions, family groups, providers, and youth and families, the CBHRC will strengthen the network of behavioral health supports for children across NH. Read more...
It's Worth the Shot!
The second video in a series of the Worth The Shot Campaign by the Mississippi Developmental Disabilities Network is now available to view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHUA1cRv4w. In this video, Taylor shares his journey of getting vaccinated and how the vaccine has helped him get back to doing the things he loves: advocating for the disability community and creating awesome things. Remember to protect yourself. Read more...
CSS's New Medical Training to Address the Needs of People with IDD
A research team from the Center for START Services at the Institute on Disability (IOD) at UNH has been approved for a $50,000 grant awarded by the WITH Foundation to develop a companion training curriculum for the Integrated Mental Health Treatment Guidelines for Prescribers in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD-MH Prescriber Guidelines). Read more...
Recovering Routine: A family's fight for normalcy
Sixty-one million adults in America live with a disability as of 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disabilities come in many forms and are essentially any condition, mentally or physically, affecting one’s ability to complete certain activities. According to a 2019 American Community Survey posted by the U.S. Census Bureau, 6% of children in Louisiana have a disability. Read more...
$17 Million Grant Contracts in Autism and Behavior Awarded to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) TRIAD
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) was awarded two grant contracts by Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) totaling $17 million. The grant contracts enable TRIAD to continue its 22-year partnership with TDOE by providing professional development and behavior intervention services across the state. Read more...
Grants Create New Center to Address Native American Disability Challenges
Two grants totaling more than $1.3 million will help establish the foundation for the Native Center for Disabilities, which is aimed at bringing Tribal communities together to improve disability services and employment access for youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Read more...
Telehealth and Individuals with IDD: Challenges and Best-Practices
The WITH Foundation announced a $50,000 award to the Institute on Disability for a one-year initiative to investigate best practices for offering telehealth care to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)The COVID-19 pandemic limited access to care and increased reliance on telehealth rather than in-person office visits. While telehealth reduces some obstacles to care (e.g., transportation), it presents other challenges. Read more...
IOD's 2021 Facts & Figures Now Available
Facts & Figures is a regularly-occurring publication of the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire. This report focuses on characteristics of the population with disabilities in New Hampshire (NH), with comparisons to neighboring states and the nation. Facts & Figures and its companion piece the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of important issues related to disability in NH and the U.S. as a whole. Read more...
Oral Health Complications Higher in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities (ODDs) with Obesity Compared to Healthy Adolescents
Dr. Vinodh Bhoopathi., an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry, a dentist certified by the American Board of Dental Public Health, is leading a study focusing on oral health complications and utilization of dental care services among several high-risk groups: adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), Other Developmental Disabilities (ODDs), and Obesity. Read more...
MI-LEND Team Develops Telehealth Module for National Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD) Core Curriculum
In 2020, the Michigan Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (MI-LEND) was selected to be part of an AUCD and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) project focusing on telehealth. The goal of the project was ultimately to support both providers and families to access telehealth and other distance care services for pediatric care. Read more...
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) UCEDD Community Advisory Council Crafts and Approves VKC Equity Statement
During a 2020 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Community Advisory Council (CAC) meeting, VKC director Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D., asked the group to help come up with a plan to increase the diversity of the VKC in a manner to better reflect the communities it serves. The CAC moved Neul's charge forward and formed a Diversity Workgroup, chaired by CAC member Shana Crispin and comprised of CAC members (individuals with disabilities, parents, disability agencies) and VKC UCEDD leadership and staff. Read more...
University Research Center Will House Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health
The Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, a Georgia State University research center housed in the School of Public Health, has been chosen as the future home for the Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health (GA-AIMH). The center will be the first umbrella organization to house GA-AIMH.
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