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• Transition and Career Preparation
• Direct Support Professionals

Newsletter Mailing List

If you'd like to be placed on the free subscription mailing list for Impact and/or Policy Research Brief please contact the Publications Office at (612) 624-4512 or icipub@umn.edu. Please provide your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address, and specify which newsletter(s) you'd like to receive. For Impact let us know whether you want to receive it in print or by e-mail.

Impact

A quarterly newsletter containing articles on research, strategies, philosophies, trends, and success stories in specific focus areas related to persons with developmental disabilities. Provides practical information useful to professionals in a variety of fields, including educators, community service providers, policymakers, and advocates, as well as persons with disabilities and their families. Available are the topical issues below. • Cost: The first copy of each Impact is free; additional copies priced as noted.

• Direct Support Workforce Development (2007/08) • Cost: $4.00
• Disaster Preparedness and People with Disabilities (2007) • Cost: $4.00
• Supporting Success in School and Beyond for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2006/07) • Cost: $4.00
• Parenting Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities (2006) • Cost: $4.00
• Children with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System (2005/06) • Cost: $4.00
• Meeting Transportation Needs of Youth and Adults with Developmental Disabilities (2005) • Cost: $4.00
• Fostering Success in School and Beyond for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (2005) • Cost: $4.00
• Enhancing Quality and Coordination of Health Care for Persons with Chronic Illness and/or Disabilities (2005) • Cost: $4.00
• Political Activism and Voter Participation by Persons with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (2004) • Cost: $4.00
• Consumer-Controlled Budgets and Persons with Disabilities (2004) • Cost: $4.00
• Achieving Secondary Education and Transition Results for Students with Disabilities (2004) • Cost: $4.00
• Social Inclusion Through Recreation for Persons with Disabilities (2003) • Cost: $4.00
• Revisiting Inclusive K-12 Education (2003) • Cost: $4.00
• Paraeducators Supporting PreK-12 Students with Disabilities and At-Risk (2002) • Cost: $4.00
• Faith Communities and Persons with Developmental Disabilities (2001/02) • Cost: $4.00
• Volunteerism by Persons with Developmental Disabilities (2001) • Cost: $4.00
• Behavior Support and Crisis Response (2001) • Cost: $4.00
• Violence Against Women with Developmental or Other Disabilities (2000) • Cost: $4.00
• Postsecondary Education Supports for Students with Disabilities (2000) • Cost: $4.00
• Support Coordination and Self-Determination for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (1999/2000) • Cost: $4.00
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (1999) • Cost: $4.00
• Supporting Transition-Age Young People with Deafblindness (1999) • Cost: $4.00
• School-to-Work and Students with Developmental Disabilities (1999) • Cost: $4.00
• Person-Centered Planning with Youth and Adults with Developmental Disabilities (1998) • Cost: $4.00
• Direct Support Workforce Development (1998) • Cost: $4.00
• Social Inclusion of Adults with Developmental Disabilities (1997) • Cost: $4.00
• Persons with Disabilities in the Justice System (1997) • Cost: $4.00
• Persons with Disabilities in the Arts (1997) • Cost: $4.00
• Inclusive Recreation for Families (1996) • Cost: $4.00
• Supporting Diversity (1996) • Cost: $2.00
• Inclusion and School Restructuring (1996) • Cost: $2.00

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Public Policy

DD Data Brief

A series summarizing analyses of the 1994/1995 National Health Interview Survey-Disability Supplement, conducted by the Institute's Research and Training Center on Community Living. Available are the following issues:

• Characteristics of Aging Caregivers in the NHIS-D (2006) • Cost: $2.00
• Mothers with Disabilities – Characteristics and Outcomes: An Analysis From the 1994/1995 NHIS-D (2005) • Cost: $2.00
• Social Activities of Non-Institutionalized Adults in the NHIS-D: Gender, Age, and Disability Differences (2005) • Cost: $2.00
• Problems in Defining Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability: Using the National Health Interview Survey (2005) • Cost: $2.00
• Response Patterns Among Adult Respondents with Mental Retardation in the National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2002 (2004) • Cost: $2.00
• Gender, Age, and Disability Differences in Functional Limitations for Non-Institutionalized Adults in the NHIS-D (2004) • Cost: $2.00
• Service Use by and Needs of Adults with Functional Limitations or ID/DD in the NHIS-D: Difference by Age, Gender, and Disability (2003) • Cost: $2.00
• Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in the NHIS-D (2003) • Cost: $2.00
• Children with Disabilities: Social Roles and Family Impacts (2002) • Cost: $2.00
• Functional Limitations of Adults in the U.S. Non-Institutionalized Population (2001) • Cost: $2.00
• Demographic Characteristics of Persons with MR/DD Living in Their Own Homes or With Family Members (2001) • Cost: $2.00
• Characteristics of and Service Use by Persons With MR/DD Living in Their Own Homes or With Family Members (2001) • Cost: $2.00
• Prevalence of Mental Retardation and/or Developmental Disabilities (2000) • Cost: $2.00

These publications are available on the National Health Information Survey Web site in PDF format.

Policy Research Brief

A newsletter summarizing research on policy issues affecting persons with developmental disabilities. Published by the Institute's Research and Training Center on Community Living. Available issues are:

• Innovative Models and Best Practices in Case Management and Support Coordination (2008) • Cost: $3.00
• A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (2007) • Cost: $3.00
• The Inclusion of Disability as Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights in State Codes (2006) • Cost: $3.00
• Family Support Services in the United States (2006) • Cost: $3.00
• Status of Institutional Closure Efforts in 2005 (2005) • Cost: $3.00
• Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2004) • Cost: $3.00
• Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services: The First 20 Years (2003) • Cost: $3.00
• Wages of Direct Support Professionals Serving Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Survey of State Agencies and Private Residential Provider Trade Associations (2003) • Cost: $3.00
• Alternative Schools and the Students They Serve: Perceptions of State Directors of Special Education (2003) • Cost: $3.00
• Health Status, Health Care Utilization Patterns, and Health Care Outcomes of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: A Literature Review (2002) • Cost: $3.00
• Family Support for Families of Persons with Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.: Status and Trends (2001) • Cost: $3.00
• Do We Really Mean Families for All Children? Permanency Planning for Children with Developmental Disabilities (2000) • Cost: $3.00
• "No Right is More Precious": Voting Rights and People with Developmental Disabilities (2000) • Cost: $3.00
• Behavioral Outcomes of Deinstitutionalization for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Studies Conducted Between 1980 and 1999 (1999) • Cost: $3.00
• A Decade Later: Employment, Residential, and Social Changes in the Lives of Adults and Young Adults with Moderate and Severe Disabilities (1998) • Cost: $3.00
• Children and Youth Receiving Residential Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Outside Their Family Home: Trends from 1977 to 1997 (1998) • Cost: $3.00
• On a Collision Course? Standards, Discipline, and Students with Disabilities (1996) • Cost: $3.00
• National Voluntary Credentialing for Direct Service Workers (1996) • Cost: $3.00
• Postschool Outcomes and Community Adjustment of Young Adults with Severe Disabilities (1996) • Cost: $3.00
• Nursing Home Reform: The Impact of Moving Out of Nursing Homes on People with Developmental Disabilities (1995) • Cost: $3.00
• Training Issues for Direct Service Personnel Working in Community Residential Programs for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (1994) • Cost: $3.00
• Are We Pushing Students in Special Education to Drop Out of School? (1994) • Cost: $3.00
  

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Transition and Career Preparation

NCSET Parent Brief

NCSET Policy Update

A series of briefs summarizing recent laws and federal regulations related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities. Published by the Institute's National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET). Available on the Web at www.ncset.org/publications.

• Youth with Disabilities and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (2002)
• IDEA 1997: Implications for Secondary Education and Transition Services (2002)

NCSET Research to Practice Brief