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📣 We Need Your Voice! 📣 Are you an adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), or a caregiver to someone with IDD? You can share your experiences and help shape the future of healthcare for adults with IDD. Your voice is essential—help make a difference!

How can we better support the health and wellness of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? ✅ Autonomy ✅ Accessibility ✅ Healthy relationships ✅ Tailored clinical car Learn more: ie-care.org/supporting-the… Disability & Health Journal The Heller School Brandeis University

Researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Health at Heller coauthored a study published in Disability & Health Journal that explores how listening to the perspectives of people with IDD can help create more inclusive healthcare systems and reduce health disparities. Learn more ⬇️

So many important insights from individuals with autism and caregivers in Jennifer "Jay" Palumbo's Forbes article here, including Robin McIntosh of Avela Health, Dr. Mai Pham of Institute for Exceptional Care, and more: forbes.com/sites/jennifer…

Our grantee Institute for Exceptional Care's latest study explores diverse perspectives on supporting the health and wellness of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through autonomy, accessibility, healthy relationships, & tailored clinical care. Learn more: ie-care.org/supporting-the…

Join us Friday, Feb 28, 12:30–2:00 p.m. EST, for a webinar on scaling up #medicaleducation to improve inclusive healthcare for people with intellectual and developmental #disabilities in Canada. Hear from experts Lauren Erickson Institute for Exceptional Care and Dr. Priya Chandan The AADMD, and join an

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A recent executive order banned “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)” programs and policies within the federal government and for federal contractors. We're working to understand the impact on healthcare for people with IDD: linkedin.com/pulse/impact-d…

In their new Forefront article, Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, Lauren Erickson, and Richard Gilfillan from Institute for Exceptional Care discuss how payers and providers forgo significant opportunity to maximize the effectiveness of value-based payment when they do not seek input from patients on model design and

For more than a decade, value-based payment models have aimed to improve healthcare quality while controlling costs. But so far, the results have been mixed. Our proposal? Authentically engage patients and make them partners in shaping healthcare. More: healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Family dynamics also shape how neurodivergence is understood and accepted. Hoangmai Pham, Founder and President of IEC, shares how her Vietnamese immigrant family had to shift their expectations after her child, Alex, was diagnosed as autistic. coldteacollective.com/celebrating-ne…

Listening to your body and communicating your needs to a provider: These are some of the factors that affect health for people with IDD. Our new #PlainLanguage blog shares more about community-engaged research on health: aahd.us/2025/03/dhjo-r… The Heller School Institute for Exceptional Care AUG - School of Public Health