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This guidebook addresses the critical issues affecting both the direct support workforce and providers supporting community living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Written in an engaging style, each chapter features tips, profiles, and resources that illustrate how to implement change at an organization or systems level. Topics include using data, collaborating, recruiting and retaining staff, training competencies, credentialing, using technology, and supporting health and wellness for a sustainable workforce.

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This book explains the concept of self-determination and explores the factors that support and create barriers to self-determination for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This book includes pieces written by people with disabilities and resources to help readers become allies and build supports for self-determination in the community.

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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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Promoting Optimal Health and Wellness is designed to provide useful information about some of the most common health conditions that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience, including prevalence, known causes, and evidence-based interventions. Intended for professionals, caregivers, and families, this book presents the most current understanding of conditions across the lifespan. 

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Intended for researchers, this book provides tools and practical strategies to develop inclusive research partnerships with adults with intellectual disability developmental disabilities. This book includes pieces written by co-researchers with lived experience with disabilities and addresses topics including team development, study design, data collection and analysis, ethics, authorship, and working with an Institutional Review Board.