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ACE.D Intellectual and Developmental Disability Resources

The resources offered in this section are intended to enhance understanding of caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

ACE.D Toolkit

Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A toolkit to enhance education of health care professionals to provide quality health care to persons with IDD

This series of modules on intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) was developed as part of a project funded by the Administration for Community Living (ACL): Partnering to Transform Health Outcomes with Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PATH-PWIDD). These brief modules are designed to provide health care professionals, students in health care professions educational programs and their faculty members, clinicians, and others, with basic but important information about IDD.

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ACE.D IDD Teaching Strategies

Communication and Care Management for People with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability: Sandy Case Study Communication and Care Management for People with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability: Jason Case Study

This teaching strategy uses a case study approach to enhance provider skills for communicating with people with an IDD, including gathering information and planning for the provision of appropriate person-centered care. The case study features Sandy, a 17-year-old female with Down Syndrome.

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ACE.D IDD Additional Resources

Guide for Integrating Standardized/ Simulated Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in Nursing Curriculum

Identifying individuals with an IDD and other disabilities as standardized patients or expert patients conveys an important message to students in health care professions, as individuals with a disability are the experts on how they live on a daily basis with their disability. Simulations conducted with standardized patients promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; inclusion of individuals with IDD and other disabilities also promotes accessibility.

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Users are asked to cite the source for these Villanova University developed resources as developed by the Villanova University College of Nursing and retrieved on the NLN website.