Health Service Delivery

Self-Advocate Renee Manfredi speaks to doctors and other healthcare providers about what they can do to give people with Intellectual Disabilities the quality health care they deserve.

This video highlights the voices of people with IDD as they ask for fairness, care, equality, and justice.

PHAB encourages health departments to consider using examples of population health activities that include people with intellectual disabilities for their documentation, where the accreditation standards and measures lend themselves to doing so.

As a caregiver, you are a role model for your child in developing food preferences. As they get older, continue to encourage healthy food choices. Encourage your child to eat a variety of fruits and vegetable, whole grains, dairy products (like milk and yogurt), and protein foods (like beans, chicken, nuts, and eggs). Here are a few ways you can help your pre-teen eat a healthy diet throughout the day!

5-2-1-0 Healthy Choices Count! encourages schools, child care programs, out-of school programs, and health care practices to increase healthy eating and physical activity opportunities for ALL children.

Identification, Evaluation, and Management of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

This guide was prepared by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), with support from Special Olympics.

This form is for patients with IDD to share information with their providers.

Over 6.5 million people in the United States are estimated to experience intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), based on prevalence rates of 2 to 3 percent of the total US population.1

Regular exercise and participation in health and wellness activities can improve overall health, fitness, mental health, self-confidence, and quality of life for people with IDD.

A toolkit on health care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the Developmental Disabilities Primary Care Initiative in Tennessee.

Anita Lesko is a nurse anesthetist and a champion for people living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Anita is an adult living with Asperger disorder who did not receive her diagnosis until she was 50 years old.

Practices that are particularly important when serving patients with IDD can help improve the quality of health care provided to all patients.

This resource provides principles and strategies to help you ensure the full and sustainable inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in health policies and laws, programming, services, training programs, research, and funding streams.