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This book provides a concise review of what we know in nine key areas in health care and health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and how that information could inform future developments in public policy, research, and practice. Intended for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

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Maltreatment of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 

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Maltreatment of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presents research and evidence-based strategies to prevent and address the maltreatment of people with IDD across the lifespan.

With a life-course perspective and emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, this volume uses a public health framework of surveillance, screening, and intervention. The work also explores the policy implications of strategies to prevent and address the maltreatment of people with IDD. 

Chapters address:

• Childhood maltreatment
• Sexual abuse
• Bullying
• Social vulnerability  
• Reproductive, sexual, and child-rearing rights  
• Parenting with a disability
• Adult Maltreatment
• Older adult victimization  
• Abusive head trauma
• Murder and execution 

Designed for students, clinicians, policymakers, and researchers, this resource provides an in-depth look at the knowledge base in addressing the maltreatment of vulnerable populations.

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Standing Together and Finding a Voice Apart: Advocating for Intellectual Disability Rights contributes to a broader understanding of the concept and processes of advocacy.

Interviews with a cross-section of intellectual disability (ID) advocates at the local, state, and national level provide fresh insights into a variety of views and experiences of ID advocacy.

Professionals, students, and self-advocates will find this book both thought-provoking and helpful in making a positive difference in the lives of others and the world.

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Lives and Legacies of People with Intellectual Disability provides a new way to view the personal and cultural contributions of people with ID.

This book is intended to be instrumental in moving toward a new understanding of community. A wide range of relevant literature is reviewed on quality of life, the social context of ID, and supports to ensure that people with ID participate in the meaningful activities of everyday life. Most importantly, individual stories are used to illustrate the meaningful legacies of people with ID.


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A History and Sociology of the Willowbrook State School introduces the reader to the Willowbrook State School, a place that many feel is the “ground zero” of the disabilities civil rights movement.  

The book explores the period before Geraldo Rivera’s sensational television exposé in 1972. The early history of institutions in New York State, New York City, and Staten Island provides a backdrop demonstrate the “medicalization” of disability, which led to the creation of large-scale institutions.

The authors describe in great detail what life was like for the people who lived and worked at Willowbrook and how the institution evolved as it did. First-hand observations and testimonials on life at Willowbrook provide a window into the interpersonal dynamics and interactions of life and work in institutional settings. 

 

Critical Issues in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Contemporary Research, Practice, and Policy provides a concise review of what we know in ten key areas  and what that knowledge means for future developments in public policy, research, and practice in the field of IDD.

The book examines the following areas:

• Aging, retirement, and end of life
• Education
• Employment and economic self-sufficiency
• Health and wellness
• Justice
• Long-term supports and services
• Self-determination and self-advocacy
• Social inclusion
• Supports for families
• Workforce issues

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From The Midwest Book Review:
"Critical Issues in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities" is unreservedly recommended for professional, governmental, NGO, college and university library collections."
                                                                                                   - Julie Summers 

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Cross-Cultural Quality of Life: Enhancing the Lives of People With Intellectual Disability, 2nd Ed. reflects many of the changes in the field of IDD in the first 15 years of this century, including the concept of quality-of-life (QOL).

This edition represents the work of 34 contributors from 14 countries who capture the significant role the concept of QOL has played in empowerment, self-advocacy, family support, supports planning, outcomes evaluation, continuous quality improvement, organizational transformation, and systems-level change. QOL is examined at various levels of implementation, from the individual through the macrosystem level.

The sample of cultures in this edition represents a somewhat different sample than that found in the first edition and is amplified by an extensive reference list that presents a broader, more complete view of international QOL work, as well as the voices of self-advocates.

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This is the 2nd edition of the award-winning history of the impact of the American eugenics movement—the pseudoscience aimed at improving “racial hygiene”—on people with disabilities. The eugenics movement swept through America in the early 20th century, resulting in the mass institutionalization and the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of people with disabilities and people identified as defective or undesirable. Eugenics was at the foundation of the Nazi atrocities to “improve” the race. The starting point for this book is The Kallikak Family, a 1912 pro-eugenics fictional tale by Henry Herbert Goddard. 

Goddard’s Kallikak ancestral lines offered “proof” for the eugenic beliefs in the hereditary nature of low intelligence, criminal behavior, and degeneracy. Good Blood, Bad Blood focuses on the life of that work’s central character, a woman institutionalized as a child at the turn of the century for being allegedly “feebleminded.” The 2nd Edition includes perspectives on disability history from leaders in the disability community, plus a timeline to help the reader follow the many overlapping events during the time periods discussed.

Community Living and Participation for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities explores how to create the ideal conditions to facilitate community living and participation for people with IDD.

The book addresses the complex and evolving concepts of "community," including living arrangements, work, other daytime activities, financial resources, relationships, personal interests, health and well-being, faith, opportunities for learning and personal growth, self-determination and informed decision making, and rights and responsibilities as a citizen. 

Specific topics include using person-centered and positive support practices, housing, employment, social inclusion and relationships, self-determination and self-advocacy, supported decision making, health and wellness, planning for healthy and engaged aging, practices that promote quality outcomes, and the direct support workforce.

Each chapter includes advance organizers, discussion questions, and a resource list. The book is ideal as an ancillary textbook at the undergraduate or graduate levels and as a staff development tool.

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