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RISP Data Bytes: Prevalence of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.
In 2020, there were an estimated 6.1 million children with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, or developmental delays, of whom 11% were known to state IDD agencies. There were an …
Published: September 2024
Trends in Privacy of Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Before and After the Home and Community-Based Services Final Rule
In 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Final Rule intended to improve the quality of HCBS for people with disabilities. …
Published: 9/14/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: September 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. The first feature story describes the University of Minnesota’s TeleOutreach Hub, which …
Published: September 2024
English Learners with Disabilities Toolkit: State Assessments for English Learners with Disabilities: State Data Display Templates (Tool 2)
This State Data Display Templates tool is designed to provide state education agencies with templates to use to display state assessment participation and student characteristics data for English …
Published: September 2024
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Forum: Restraints in Schools
Published: September 2024
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Expanding Access for Rural, Highly Mobile, and Military-Connected Families
Published: September 2024
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Special Education’s Difficult History
Published: September 2024
Advances and Gaps in Policy, Practice, and Research in Transition for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across Four Countries
The difficulties faced by youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families as they move into adulthood are widely documented. The aim of the paper is to explore the …
Published: 2024
Interventions Used with the Direct Support Workforce in Home and Community-Based Settings: A Scoping Review
This scoping review fills the gap on key characteristics of interventions and trainings for direct support workforce (DSW) of adults across disabilities and aging adults. We included quantitative …
Published: 2024
Transition Practices to Promote Active Citizenship of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Transition to adulthood is often defined in traditional terms of transitioning to employment, post- secondary education, and community living. Based on the experiences of youth and young adults …
Published: 2025
RISP Data Bytes: Expenditures Per Person by Age in 2020
In 2020, almost a million people with IDD received HCBS waiver services with an average per-person expenditure of $49,787. Adults often live in non-family homes, so their waiver expenditures are …
Published: August 2024
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Coordinated Service Pathways for Transition-age Youth with Epilepsy in Minnesota
Develop a family-centered model of transition service pathway coordination across education, healthcare, and vocational rehabilitation for young Minnesota adults with epilepsy and/or co-occurring …
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Surveillance of Spina Bifida Across the Lifespan
This project estimates the prevalence of spina bifida (SB) across the lifespan in Minnesota. SB is a congenital disability that results in complex needs and functional limitations that require …
English Learners with Disabilities Toolkit
The English Learners with Disabilities Toolkit is designed to provide states and IEP teams with tools they can use to better understand their students who are English learners with disabilities …
English Learners with Disabilities Toolkit: Using Data to Understand the Characteristics of English Learners with Disabilities in Your State (Tool 1)
This tool is designed to provide state education agencies (SEAs), particularly assessment staff, with templates to use to display data on the characteristics of English learners with disabilities. …
Published: August 2024
NCEO Reports: A Summary of the Research on the Effects of K–12 Test Accommodations: 2022 (#444)
This report presents a synthesis of the research literature published in 2022 on testing accommodations for U.S. elementary and secondary students (K–12). The National Center on Educational …
Published: August 2024
MIDAS Project Reports: Parents’ Perspectives on Their Child’s Move from the AA-AAAS to the General Assessment (#104)
This report presents the findings of interviews that were conducted with parents of students who moved from the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) to …
Published: August 2024
Transitional Challenges: Psychotropic Medication and Residential Setting Among Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
As youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are transitioning from the school systems and special education supports, many of them are moving into the adult service system (e.g …
Published: 2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: August 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. The first feature story concerns ICI and others urging federal officials to create a …
Published: August 2024
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Check & Connect: Global Reach Conference
Published: August 2024
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Message Sent: DSPs Count
Published: August 2024
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Disability Pride Festival a Success
Published: August 2024
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Impact: Addiction and IDD
Published: August 2024
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Answering the Call
Published: August 2024
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End Diagnostic Overshadowing: Addressing Ableism in the Healthcare Context
This research is intended to confront ableism in healthcare for people with disabilities. The investigators have designed research aims and strategies to reduce implicit bias in the practice of …
MIDAS Project Reports: A Mixed Methods Study on Teaching Students Who Moved From the AA-AAAS to General State Assessment (#102)
This report presents the findings of a study that examined the successes and barriers that teachers faced when instructing students with disabilities who have moved from the alternate assessment …
Published: July 2024
MIDAS Project Reports: Teachers’ Perspectives on Using Multiple Measures of Academic Achievement to Inform Instruction of Students on the Cusp Between the AA-AAAS and the General Assessment (#103)
This report presents the findings of online focus groups conducted with teachers to learn more about their experiences using multiple measures to inform instructional decision making for students …
Published: July 2024
Impact: Feature Issue on Addiction and IDD
Addiction & IDD calls attention to the disparities people with disabilities live with if they also have substance use disorder or problems with gambling, video games, excessive sugar consumption …
Published: Spring/Summer 2024
The Value of Employment for People with Disabilities Around the World: The Dignity of Work
Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is taken for granted by many. Historically, however, …
Published: 2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: July 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about David Johnson (1951–2024) and his commitment …
Published: July 2024
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Namibia: Community-Driven Priorities
Published: July 2024
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Hong Wins Schleien Scholarship
Published: July 2024
Policy Research Brief: The Unrestrained Use of Physical Restraints in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education defines physical restraints as a restriction that immobilizes or reduces the ability to move torso, arms, legs, or head freely. Because of the inherent dangers of …
Published: July 2024
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Moving Mountains: Perspectives, Richcroft
Published: July 2024
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David Johnson: Unwavering Commitment
Published: July 2024
Webinar: Teacher Perceptions and Perspectives on the Selection and Implementation of Accommodations
This webinar presents research on teachers’ preferences for and perceptions of accommodations, as well as suggestions for how to incorporate these into accommodations decision-making (see NCEO …
Published: 7/3/2024
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Enhancing Secondary/Transition Outcomes Using Check and Connect with the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction
The University of Kansas developed the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI), which teachers use to enable students to set goals, choose, plan, and track progress toward goals. ICI …
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Maryland - College of Direct Support
These services will strengthen Maryland's direct support workforce through professional development, competency-based training, and a credentialing system. The Training Policy Framework for DSPs ( …
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Minnesota Principal Leadership for Inclusive Education Manual
This project develops the Minnesota Principal Leadership for Inclusive Education Manual , an online resource to support school principals in envisioning, designing, and implementing inclusive …
NCEO Data Analytics: Number and Percentage of English Learners with Disabilities by Disability Category, 2013-14 to 2022-23 (#20)
This interactive report presents information on the percentage students with disabilities who are also English learners, and the proportion of these students by disability category for school …
Published: June 2024
NCEO APR Snapshot Briefs: 2021-2022 APR Snapshot #31: Assessment Participation, Performance, and Assigned Accommodations for Students Receiving Special Education Services (#31)
This report provides a snapshot of the participation and performance of students receiving special education services on statewide reading/language arts and mathematics assessments for 2021-22. …
Published: 6/25/2024
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Best Practices for Health Communication for Adults with Intellectual Disability
The ability of healthcare practitioners to communicate effectively with their patients is critical. This project aims to identify best practices in providing health-related communication that …
NCEO Reports: Two Pieces of a Puzzle: The 95% Participation Requirement in State Plans and States’ Opt-out Policies (#443)
This report presents the findings of an analysis of states’ Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Consolidated State Plans in regards to the 95% participation requirement. …Published: June 2024
A State Discussion Guide to Understanding, Developing and Sustaining Balanced Assessment Systems That Are Inclusive of All Students
This state discussion guide is designed to facilitate discussions within state education agencies about how to create and sustain a balanced assessment system that is inclusive of all students, …
Published: June 2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: June 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about a powerful new video series, filmed by ICI …Published: June 2024
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The Power of Play
Published: June 2024
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Knowledge is Power: ICI, Partners Launch New Sexuality Series for OPWDD
Published: June 2024
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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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