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Health Check – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBThe Health Check is a tool to organize a comprehensive health assessment, including physical exam, for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The tool …

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Informed Consent in Adults with Intellectual or Developmental

WEBInformed consent requires a physician or other health care clinician to furnish a patient with information sufficient to allow the patient to understand and give approval for a proposed …

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Down Syndrome – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBMental wellness in adults with Down syndrome: A guide to emotional and behavioral strengths and challenges. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House; 2006. 9-28. Wallace RA, …

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Mental Health Interventions – Health Care for Adults with …

WEBThis resource provides an overview of supports and interventions for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities presenting with emotional and behavioral concerns.

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Mental and Behavioral Health Issues – Health Care for Adults with

WEBThese tools help health care clinicians in implementing the recommendations from the 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines on the primary care of adults with intellectual and …

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Physical Health – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBPhysical Health. Adults with intellectual or other developmental disabilities often have complex or difficult-to-treat medical conditions, either as part of their developmental …

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Resources – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and …

WEBSupported decision-making is an effort to give people with disabilities the opportunity to make more choices in their lives, including health care decisions. The National …

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Adaptive Functioning and Communication – Health Care for …

WEBThis fact sheet explains the different levels of intellectual functioning within intellectual and developmental disabilities. Awareness of the intellectual abilities and corresponding …

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Approaches to Care – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBThe tools in this section are recommended in the Approaches to Care section of the guidelines and include tools that facilitate getting consent from patients with intellectual …

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Decision-Making in Health Care of Adults with Intellectual and

WEBThis tool provides practical steps to help health care providers respect the decision-making rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome – Health Care for Adults with …

WEBEndocrine aspects of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Genet Med 2001 Jan-Feb;3 (1):19-22. Bassett AS, Chow EW, Husted J, Weksberg R, Caluseriu O, Webb GD, et al. Clinical …

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Health Watch Tables – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBThe Health Watch Tables highlight particular health problems that occur more frequently among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities compared with the general …

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About – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and …

WEBAdults with intellectual or other developmental disabilities face a cascade of health disparities. They often: have complex or difficult-to-treat medical conditions. have …

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Williams Syndrome – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and

WEBProfessor Emerita, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Director, Lysosomal Center, Williams Syndrome Clinic & Connective Tissues Clinic, Children’s …

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Crisis Prevention and Management Plan – Health Care for Adults …

WEBCrisis prevention begins with understanding underlying factors that might predispose people with IDD to experience distressing behavior. This tool helps primary care clinicians and …

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Emergency Room Stabilization Protocol for Individuals with IDD

WEBThe Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ TN START Assessment & Stabilization Team in collaboration with the Tennessee Council on …

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Our Advisory Committee – Health Care for Adults with Intellectual …

WEBMembers of the IDD Toolkit Update Advisory Committee (2022-2023) are: Dave Caudel, Associate Director of Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, Nashville, TN, autism self …

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Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) Chart

WEBThe Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) chart helps identify factors that can trigger or reinforce acute behavioral incidents. This information provides basis for developing a …

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