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Inclusive, Accessible Health Care the Focus of Free Continuing Medical Education Course
A new Continuing Medical Education (CME) course aimed at facilitating more equitable and accessible health care for patients with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) is available through the University of Arizona Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities. The CME is a free and self-directed online course for physicians, nurse practitioners, and other licensed health care providers who require continuing education. Course completion grants three CME credit hours toward license renewal. Read more...
Equitable Health Care for LGBTQIA+ Individuals with Disabilities: A New Frontier for Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Tennessee DD Network
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center leaders serve on the Executive Diversity Council for Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). In Tennessee, the VUMC Program for LGBTQ Health is one of the only networks in the Southeast with health care providers who understand and welcome sexual and gender minorities. However, the Center does not have specific training in disability. We know we must forge a new frontier. Read more...
Reduced levels of IGF-1 levels in the brain found to be an underlying cause for infantile spasms, hinting at a novel therapy
A breakthrough study from Baylor College of Medicine IDDRC-one of AUCD's Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRCs)-has found an underlying cause & novel therapy for infantile spasms, a severe epilepsy in babies. IDDRCs contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based practices by evaluating the effectiveness of biological, biochemical, and behavioral interventions; developing assistive technologies; and advancing prenatal diagnosis and newborn screening. Read more...
IGROW Project at Texas A&M University Student Highlights
 The future is looking pretty sweet for this amazing young lady! M.W. spent her summer exploring the world of baking and bakery ownership with Liz Smith of Country Road Baking Co.During her 5 week work experience she learned about food preparation and safety, food quality standards, communicating with customers and taking orders, baking techniques and creativity with flavor and texture. She learned how to make specialty desserts including custom cookies, cupcakes and cakes. She also worked with the owner to help build the company website! Read more...
MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley to provide Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
 MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley is working with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) IDD-BH Unit to administer and disperse Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Pandemic Emergency Assistance Funds (PEAF) which was authorized through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (HR 1319). The TANF PEAF addresses housing and ancillary needs of needy families in which dependent children have or reside with a family who has a diagnosis of a mental health condition, intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), and/or substance use disorder and who have been impacted by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through the provision of direct financial assistance or services aimed at short-term stabilization efforts for families. Read more...
ToTAL Summer Enrichment Academy 2022
 For the first time since 2019, the IDS Summer Enrichment Academy provided in-person options to youth and young adults wanting to increase their employability skills. Beginning in 2018, IDS, through its Transition of Teens to Adult Life (ToTAL) Program, has hosted youth and young adults for a multi-week training and internship experience during the summer. While other students may be taking vacations, spending times with friends and enjoying time out of school, a group of youth and young adults chose to spend this summer learning how to prepare for future employment and participating in an internship experience. Read more...
Project TAPP Now Offering Professional Development for Teaching Teams at No Cost
 Texas A&M University's Project TAPP is excited to provide professional development for teacher and paraprofessional teams working with students with autism spectrum disorder. Participants will receive two-days of PD workshops in autism and. related interventions and follow-up support during the school year. All teacher and paraprofessional teams working with students with autism are invited to participate. Read more...
Fall CampLIFE to Take Place October 21-23, Registration to Begin August 1st
 LIFE— it stands for Leadership, Independence and Friends through Experiences, and it’s what embodies the spirit of Camp LIFE, a unique and inclusive camping adventure for children with disabilities and their siblings. Held twice a year at the barrier-free facilities of Camp For All in Burton, Texas, Camp LIFE provides recreation for children ages 5 and up with disabilities and their siblings while offering a weekend of respite for their parents. Read more...
Community Supports in Crisis: No Staff, No Services
 All the progress toward community living that has been made in services for people with IDD over decades is now in jeopardy because of catastrophic labor shortages and pervasive high turnover rates in the direct support workforce. This white paper from ICI and its partners at HSRI and NASDDDS explores the depth of the crisis in the workforce and the impact on people with IDD and sounds the alarm about the nature and scope of the workforce crisis in the IDD service system. Read more...
PEERS for CAREERS
There will be an estimated 700,000 autistic adults aging into adulthood over the next 10 years. Yet, a staggering 80% of autistic adults are unemployed. The UCLA PEERS® for Careers program was developed to address the challenges faced by autistic young adults in their transition from college to career and to create a scalable solution to employment barriers faced by autistic individuals to serve as a model of higher education training for colleges across the country.
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Introduces New Toolkits Promoting Neurodiversity, Self-determination in Early childhood Services
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC)(TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) recently introduced two brand-new educational resources promoting neurodiversity, self-determination in early childhood services. The toolkits were created by the VKC’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder (TRIAD) and the Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Training Program. Read more...
University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, 2022 July eNewsletter
Happy Disability Pride Month!! And welcome to the July 2022 issue of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Center on Disability Studies eNewsletter. Special highlights in this issue include: Featured Artist Eben Hooey; Spotlighting CDS and projects' socials; Disability and China Call for Papers RDS Journal; #PacRim2023 theme, topic nomination and sponsors;SPIN Recorded Seminar overview; Manga Portrayals of Deaf... Project Hōkūlani in the news. Read more...
New Certificate in Disability Rights, Policy, and Services (C-DRPS) at Indiana University
A new graduate certificate program, the Certificate in Disability Rights, Policy, and Services (C-DRPS) has been introduced at Indiana University – Bloomington because of a partnership between the School of Education, School of Social Work, and the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC). The C-DRPS program provides students the opportunity to explore critical concepts impacting the lives of individuals with disabilities across the lifespan. Through active engagement with national and state experts with and without disabilities, students will be provided the opportunity to analyze and critique the systems that provide services and supports to this broad community. Read more...
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How do you help a child with autism, who needs to see a dentist before starting kindergarten, but has had a previous visit to the dentist that didn’t go well at all? Very patiently, according to Jillian Reiher, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist at the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD), Iowa’s UCEDD, and the state’s premier center for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of people with disabilities. Reiher had been working with the child who had been diagnosed with autism the previous year. They met once a week in Day Treatment, doing bridge ABA therapy and skill acquisition. When the child’s mother brought up the need for a dental appointment, and the challenging visit at the pediatric dentistry clinic, Reiher came up with a plan. 
