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“Just The Beginning”: MNLEND Graduates Celebrate Success
Published: June 2024
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Hewitt, Staff Lead New IDD Issue
Published: June 2024
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Lakin Receives Outstanding Achievement Award
Published: June 2024
Special Education Teachers in Minnesota, 1840s to 2023: Roles, Qualifications, Training, Supply, and Continuous Shortages
This book documents special education teachers' role in Minnesota history from the 1840s until 2023. Few special education teachers were trained before a 1957 state law required services for all …
Published: 5/15/2024
Direct Support Professionals: Diversity, Disparities, and Deepening Crisis
In the United States, direct support professionals (DSPs) support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) so they can live in the community. Thirty years of deinstitutionaliza…
Published: 6/1/2024
NCEO Newsletter: June 2024 issue
NCEO’s June 2024 newsletter features several NCEO resources that address accommodations. Articles highlight several resources on student and teacher perspectives about accommodations, what the …
Published: June 2024
MTI Quarterly Trainings: Updates on Statewide Employment Initiatives
Representatives of various Minnesota state agencies give a May 2024 update on statewide initiatives that support the transition of workers with disabilities from subminimum wage jobs to competitive…
Published: 5/16/2024
Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexual Self Advocacy
This video is the first in an empowerment series for self-advocates. This educational set of videos highlights the importance of providing information to people with developmental disabilities and …
Published: 3/4/2024
RISP Data Bytes: Fewer People with IDD Live in ICF/IIDs, But Progress is Not Equal
Medicaid Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) are institutions where four to 500 people live and get support. Use of these facilities is declining …
Published: 2024
Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Consent and Sexual Relationships: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
When adults want a relationship with each other, they should make choices together about what the relationship should look like. This consent helps both people feel good about the relationship. …
Published: 3/4/2024
Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexual Feelings and Relationships: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
A narrator and self-advocates explain that everyone's sexuality is unique to them, and that is true whether they have disabilities or not. There are different types of sexual feelings, and while …
Published: 3/4/2024
Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
For people with developmental disabilities, being a sexual self-advocate is about speaking up for what they want in their lives, how they dress, and having relationships and sexual experiences. It …
Published: 3/4/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: May 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's work on a University of Minnesota team …
Published: May 2024
NCEO Brief: Avoiding Unintended Consequences of Improved Accessibility of State Tests (#35)
There has been a paradigm shift from accommodations to the identification of levels of accessibility (e.g., universal features, designated features, and accommodations). A consequence of this …
Published: May 2024
Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
This educational set of videos highlights the importance of providing information to people with developmental disabilities and supporting them in their sexual self-advocacy.
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Her Calling: Helping Families
Published: May 2024
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Reinventing Quality: Hard Questions for Tough Times
Published: May 2024
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Here and Nao: Better Support
Published: May 2024
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Let’s End 14c
Published: May 2024
Community Testing Practices for Autism within the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network
Background : No data exist at the population level on what tests are used to aid in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in community practice. Objectives: To describe autism spectrum disorder…
Published: 2024
Using Mixed Methods to Evaluate Modified Schema-Based Instruction in General Education Classrooms
In this convergent mixed methods design study, single-subject and qualitative data were collected concurrently to provide an in-depth picture of the impact of a modified schema-based instructional …
Published: 2024
MIHEC Learning Community Webinars: A Model for Intentional College and Career Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
College is an enormous growth opportunity in the lives of all students. Inclusive higher education initiatives for students with intellectual disability can promote this growth by supporting …
Published: April 2024
MIHEC Learning Community Webinars: Engaging Students, Families, and Educators in the Inclusive Postsecondary Education Preparation Process
Helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities prepare for inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) is best addressed with a team approach. Equipping students and their support …
Published: March 2024
RISP Data Bytes: Institutionalized Adults with IDD, 1967 to 2020
In 1967, 29.1% of adults with IDD in the U.S. lived in large state-run institutions, while most others resided with family. By 2020, only 0.7% lived in such facilities, with an additional 1.9% in …
Published: 2024
Webinar: What Do Students Prefer? Considering Students’ Perceptions and Preferences when Selecting Accommodations
This webinar presents research on students’ preferences for accommodations as well as suggestions for how to incorporate these preferences and perceptions into accommodations decision-making …Published: 4/24/2024
MTI Success Stories: Getting Buy-in from Stakeholders with PHASE Industries
PHASE-Industries is a day and employment provider serving people with disabilities in rural Minnesota. In 2024, PHASE-Industries ended its center-based, subminimum wage service model and is …
Published: 2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Word Prediction: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states accessibility policies for word prediction is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 4/22/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Math Charts/Tables: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states accessibility policies for math charts/tables is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 4/22/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Manipulatives: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states accessibility policies for manipulatives is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 4/22/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Large Print: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states accessibility policies for large print is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 4/22/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: April 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about training early childhood and other profession…
Published: April 2024
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Connected to Something Bigger
Published: April 2024
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Sinking Sub-Minimum Wages
Published: April 2024
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Doctor’s Orders
Published: April 2024
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New Frontline Initiative: DSPs Speak Up!
Published: April 2024
RISP Data Bytes: Caseloads versus People Receiving Services
The number of people known to state IDD agencies and the number receiving services increased 21% from 2013 to 2020. In 2020, 85% of the people known to state IDD agencies got one or more services …
Published: 2024
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Autism: Recognizing Signs, Connecting Resources
Published: April 2024
A Closer Look: Episode 6: Guest Amy Hewitt: "No One is Better at Telling Your Story Than You Are"
Our guest is Amy Hewitt, Ph.D., director of the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota. Amy explains that as direct support professionals, you have to fight for what you …
Published: 3/28/2024
A Closer Look: Episode 5: Advocating for Yourself with Megan Russell
Megan Russell has supported Jay as a direct support professional (DSP) for the past 10 years. In this episode, Megan talks about her experience at the NADSP Advocacy Symposium where she learned …
Published: 2/22/2024
MIDAS Project Reports
A report series for The MIDAS Project
MIDAS Project Reports: Using Multiple Measures of Academic Achievement to Inform Instruction for Students with Disabilities Who Moved from the Alternate Assessment to the General State Assessment (#101)
This report presents an overview of two types of assessments that can inform instructional decision making for students with disabilities who moved from the alternate assessment based on alternate …
Published: April 2024
Frontline Initiative: Advocacy and Voting
Direct support professionals (DSPs) advocate regularly with the people they support. This issue of Frontline Initiative argues that DSPs now need to speak up for themselves and their profession— …
Published: Spring 2024
Policy Forum: The Employment Impacts of Being a Family Caregiver
This Policy Forum, held on March 22, 2024, discusses the recent Policy Research Brief titled, The Employment Impacts of Being a Family Caregiver . Discussants include ICI's Lynda Lahti Anderson; …
Published: 3/22/2024
Impact, The Conversation
A podcast series from the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota that takes a deep dive into the latest research, practices, and insights moving the inclusion of people …
Impact, The Conversation: Episode 5: Sexuality and IDD: Recognizing Rights
Lindsey Mullis speaks with Impact managing editor Janet Stewart about the lack of training for caregivers to provide social-sexual supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabiliti…
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Episode 4: Sexuality: Pauline and Oscar
Pauline Bosma, founder of the Rainbow Support Groups of Massachusetts, and Oscar Hughes, then a Boston University doctoral candidate, share how they worked with others to create a resource guide …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Episode 3: The Arc of Justice
Leigh Anne McKingsley, senior director at The Arc's National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, talks with Janet Stewart, Impact' s managing editor, about intersectional issues involving …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Episode 2: TJ Gordon and Jaime Cornejo
Impact goes on the road to Chicago to talk with self-advocate, activist, and writer T.J. Gordon, who created a story map to highlight people with disabilities living in different neighborhoods of …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Episode 1: Disability Justice: Centering the Most Marginalized Among Us
Nikki Villavicencio of Advocating Change Together in Minnesota, joins Impact managing editor Janet Stewart in the ICI studio for a discussion about disability justice and solidarity in advocating …
Published: 3/15/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: March 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's longstanding collaborations with …
Published: March 2024
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Increasing Support Skills and Well-being for Direct Support Workers Employed through Self-Directed Programs
Train workers who provide direct care to individuals using self-directed supports. This training increases the knowledge and skills of direct support workers, leading to a more robust, resilient …
Impact: Disability Rights, Disability Justice
This issue explores what disability justice means for people with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities and puts that in the context of the broader Disability Rights Movement. Authors …
Published: Winter 2023-24
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Sharper Tools for Cutting Bias
Published: March 2024
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Impact: New Issue, New Podcast
Published: March 2024
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Connecting Communities
Published: March 2024
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Studying Service Quality Issues and Shortages of Providers, and Expanding Access to Waiver Intervention and Respite Services
This project surveys community providers, data sources, and community partners to assess the current barriers to meeting the needs and expanding service access for people with co-occurring behavior…
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The Importance of Testing
Published: March 2024
MTI Quarterly Trainings: Engaging Employers for Competitive, Integrated Employment
Engaging with local employers is a necessary part of supporting people in finding competitive, integrated jobs. Building connections with employers and understanding their business needs is key to …
Published: 2/15/2024
Separate School Placement for Students With Extensive Support Needs and the Potential Impact of Locale and Charter School Enrollment
Separate school placements persist for students with extensive support needs (ESN) despite longstanding federal mandates for all students with disabilities to be educated in the least restrictive …
Published: 2024
RISP Data Bytes: Changes in Spending for Long-term Services and Supports between 1982 and 2019
Since 1982, the number of individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) receiving services in community settings has surged, while those in Medicaid-funded IDD institutions …
Published: 2024
Postschool Goal Expectations for Youth With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Using National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 data, this study explored parent and youth expectations in the areas of postsecondary education, employment, independent living, and financial …
Published: 2024
MTI Success Stories: Kaposia
Founded in 1963, Kaposia is a Minnesota nonprofit agency based in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, providing customized employment services for people with disabilities and retirement …
Published: 2024
MIHEC Learning Community Webinars: Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability
In this session, presenter Beth Myers, co-editor of Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability (Minnesota, 2023), explains that students with intellectual and development…
Published: February 2024
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TIES-SCOE
TIES Center is engaged in a year-long collaboration (2024-2025) with the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) for the "California Includes" initiative. The project aims to develop comprehen…
Accommodations Toolkit: Magnification: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for magnification is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 3/5/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Familiar Proctor/Test Administrator: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for familiar proctor/test administrator is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 3/5/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Extended Time: States' Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for extended time is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 3/5/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Braille: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for braille is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 2/29/2024
NCEO Reports: Universal Design and K-12 Academic Assessments: A Scoping Review of the Literature (#442)
This report summarizes an investigation of literature published in 1985-2023 on universal design (UD) of large-scale assessments. State education agencies, K-12 assessment vendors, teacher trainers…
Published: February 2024
Health Professionals' Education Related to People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review
Background: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are among the most underserved in an inequitable healthcare system. Methods: Using Arksey and O'Malley's methodology and a …
Published: 2024
Wellness Matters for Direct Support: Episode 6: Olivia Kaplan on Trauma-Informed Care
Olivia Kaplan is a life success coach at Carey Services in Indiana. She tells how her organization implemented trauma-informed care, what it took to train staff, and how trauma-informed care …
Published: February 2024
Wellness Matters for Direct Support: Episode 5: Eating Healthy on a Budget
Jenny Breen has been a professional chef and advocate for sustainable food systems and food justice, and has worked directly with farmers and producers in the Twin Cities area, since the mid-1980s …
Published: November 2023
MIHEC Learning Community Webinars: National Accreditation Standards and Resources for Program Accreditation
In this session, presenters Mary Judge Diegert and Martha Mock provide an overview of the national accreditation standards and valuable insight into how to embed the standards into new or existing …
Published: January 2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: February 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's collaboration with the Minnesota …
Published: February 2024
MTI Success Stories: Ending Center-Based Work at Rise, Inc.
Rise, Inc. is a Minnesota-based nonprofit agency that provides employment services in support of people with disabilities. In 2021, Rise decided to end piece-rate, center-based employment in favor …
Published: 2024
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Support Work: Realizing Inclusion
Published: February 2024
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GoMN! Project: From Subminimum Wages to Competitive Integrated Work
This project trains individuals and families in Minnesota to transition from subminimum wage to competitive integrated employment. The training covers self-advocacy skills, supported decision- …
Resource Guide for Developing and Implementing Skill-Building Plans
This resource guide is intended to be used by teams leading organization-wide positive support or teams providing individual positive supports with children or adults. The purpose of this guide is …
Published: 2024
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To Survive, and to Laugh
Published: February 2024
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Higher Ed Grants Coming Soon
Published: February 2024
NCEO Brief: Teacher Perceptions and Perspectives on the Selection and Implementation of Accommodations (#34)
Many students with disabilities use accessibility features and accommodations during instruction and when taking assessments. It is important to consider teacher perceptions and experiences when …
Published: February 2024
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Transforming the Landscape of Behavioral Health Access for Geographically Dispersed and Military-Connected Children and Families across the Midwest
Published: February 2024
RISP Data Bytes: Jails, Prisons, and Large State Institutions
Many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who live in state-run facilities of 16 or more people have had previous criminal involvement. In 2019, 29% of people admitted to …
Published: 2024
NCEO Newsletter: February 2024 issue
NCEO’s February 2024 newsletter features several NCEO resources that address English learners with disabilities. The number of school-age English learners with disabilities is increasing, and …
Published: February 2024
NCEO Brief: The Basics of Accommodations and Modifications (#33)
The purpose of this Brief is to clarify what accommodations and modifications are for both instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. We also disentangle the use of the term “ …
Published: January 2024
NCEO State Surveys: 2023 Survey of States: Trends, Accomplishments, and Challenges
This report highlights the findings of the sixteenth survey of states conducted by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). It has been administered for more than three decades to …
Published: February 2024
NCEO Reports: Revisiting the Meaning of “Reduced Depth, Breadth, and Complexity” for AA-AAAS (#441)
Alternate assessments aligned to alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) are designed and implemented for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Historically, these …
Published: January 2024
MTI Success Stories: Customized Employment in Action
As a leader for decades in connecting people to competitive, integrated employment, Kaposia, an employment services provider in Minnesota, has upended the traditional job search process. Instead …
Published: 2023
MTI Success Stories: PHASE-Industries
PHASE-Industries is a day- and employment-provider serving people with disabilities in rural Minnesota. In 2021, PHASE-Industries began the transition from a center-based, subminimum wage service …
Published: 2023
MTI Success Stories: Udac
For decades, Udac offered center-based employment opportunities that paid subminimum wages to employees with disabilities, which is legal under federal law. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spurred …
Published: 2023
Accommodations Toolkit: Color Contrast: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for color contrast is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 1/18/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Clarify/Simplify/Repeat Directions: States' Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for clarify/simplify/repeat directions is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 1/18/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Calculator: States' Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for calculator is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 1/18/2024
Accommodations Toolkit: Assistive Technology: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for assistive technology is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 1/18/2024
Braille: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for braille is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 1/18/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: January 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's work with University of Minnesota …
Published: January 2024
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Evaluation of Georgia's DSP Certification Pilot Projects
This project conducts formative and summative evaluations of DSP Certification Pilot Projects funded by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. Formative …
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ICI, UM Extension Partner For 4-H Youth
Published: January 2024
NCEO Data Analytics: State Assessment Participation and Performance of Students with IEPs, 2020-2021 (#19)
This interactive report presents data on the participation and performance of students receiving special education services in statewide assessments used for Elementary and Secondary Education Act …
Published: January 2024
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Tipping the Grant Scales
Published: January 2024

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