The Future Of I/DD Is In The Home

Greetings from The 2017 OPEN MINDS I/DD Summit in Long Beach! Today we had a sneak preview of the new 2017 State Of The States On Developmental Disabilities, from the author himself, David Braddock, Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado.

My big takeaway? The focused effort to move consumers to the community is working and forcing us to rethink what “community” means. Dr. Braddock's new research reported that the number of institutionalized individuals with developmental disabilities dropped dramatically in the last 50 years from a high of . . .