Residential services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Lakin, K. Charlie; Hewitt, Amy; Eschenbacher, Heidi; Smith, Jerry W.

doi:10.1037/0000195-014

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“…An estimated 56 million adults in the United States have basic or below‐basic reading skills, meaning that though they can read simple words and phrases in familiar contexts they are largely unable to read connected text with comprehension (Lesgold & Welch‐Ross, 2012; National Center for Education Statistics, 2017). These reading challenges are ubiquitous among the more than 7 million Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Larson et al, 2018) who generally read at or below a third‐grade reading level (Schulte et al, 2016). Specifically, adults with intellectual disabilities are known to struggle to read with comprehension and score nearly three standard deviations below the mean on reading comprehension measures (Wagner et al, 2006).…”

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Simplified COVID‐19 guidance for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Benson‐Goldberg,

Geist,

Erickson

2024

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BackgroundDuring the COVID‐19 pandemic, the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created guidance documents that were too complex to be read and understood by the majority of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who often read at or below a third‐grade reading level. This study explored the extent to which these adults could read and understand CDC documents simplified using Minimised Text Complexity Guidelines.MethodThis study involved 20 participants, 18–48 years of age. Participants read texts and responded to multiple‐choice items and open‐ended questions to gather information about how they interacted with and understood the texts.ResultsThe results provide initial evidence that the Minimised Text Complexity Guidelines resulted in texts that participants could read and understand.ConclusionImplications for increasing the accessibility of public health information so that it can be read and understood by adults with extremely low literacy skills are discussed.

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Simplified COVID‐19 guidance for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Benson‐Goldberg,

Geist,

Erickson

2024

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“…About one in six children in the United States was diagnosed with a DD [6]. It is estimated that approximately 7.4 million people have IDD [7]; however, finding an exact prevalence is difficult because of the overlap in how ID and DD are defined and the broad range of severity in the impact of the disability [8].…”

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Building Evidence for Principles to Guide the Development of Products for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Extreme Low Literacy—A Product Development Tool

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This article presented a new product development tool for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People with IDD who also have extreme low literacy (ELL) have unique communication needs; public health communicators often face challenges developing effective communication materials for this audience. To support CDC communication specialists with the development of communication products for adults with IDD/ELL, CDC, with its partners RTI International and CommunicateHealth, created a product development tool for this audience through literature review, expert input, and interviews with adults with IDD/ELL and caregivers of adults with IDD/ELL. To build evidence around the principles described in the tool, RTI conducted interviewer-administered surveys with 100 caregivers who support people with IDD/ELL. During the interviews, we presented caregivers with stimuli (portions of a communication product) that either did or did not apply a single principle and asked which would be easier for the person they support to understand. Across all 14 principles tested, the caregiver respondents indicated that the principle-based version would be easier for the person they support to understand compared with the non-principle-based version(s). These findings provide additional evidence to support the principles included in CDC’s Tool for Developing Products for People with IDD/ELL.

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Residential services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Simplified COVID‐19 guidance for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Simplified COVID‐19 guidance for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Building Evidence for Principles to Guide the Development of Products for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Extreme Low Literacy—A Product Development Tool

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