The IDD Toolkit, a website devoted to information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is now available online.
The toolkit offers health care providers best-practice tools and a wealth of information regarding specific medical and behavioral concerns of adults with IDD, including resources for patients and families.
The aim of this project is to equip primary care practices in the United States to care for adults with IDD as they transition from their pediatrician's care. The website’s information is an adaptation for U.S. use of a Canadian book, "Tools for the Primary Care of People with Developmental Disabilities," (2011) which is based on consensus guidelines and has been peer-reviewed.
Adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities often have difficulties accessing health care or receive inadequate care. Many health care professionals may feel that they have insufficient training or experience to feel comfortable providing care to adults with IDD. By adapting the Canadian tools and making them available electronically, virtually every U.S. primary care provider could have access to these tools.
Click here to access the IDD Toolkit.
The Developmental Disabilities Health Care Toolkit is a project of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, the University of Tennessee Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, and the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and is funded by the Special Hope Foundation.
For more information, e-mail iddtoolkit@vanderbilt.edu.
Last Updated: 1/30/2014 8:58:41 AM
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