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Intellectual Disability: Definition, Diagnosis, Classification, and Systems of Supports, 12th  Edition  

The AAIDD Manual leads the field in understanding, diagnosing, and classifying the construct of intellectual disability (ID). The 12th edition integrates the findings and developments of the last 10 years and presents the operational definition in a systematic approach to diagnosis, optional subgroup classification, and planning of systems of supports for people with ID. In addition, the 12th edition examines the construct of age of onset in light of the developments of the last 10 years and changes that criterion in a way that will be critically important for professionals in the field. The material in the 12th edition is presented in a user-friendly fashion and includes advance organizers for each chapter to facilitate easy access and understanding.

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Lives and Legacies of People with Intellectual Disability provides a new way to view the personal and cultural contributions of people with ID.

This book is intended to be instrumental in moving toward a new understanding of community. A wide range of relevant literature is reviewed on quality of life, the social context of ID, and supports to ensure that people with ID participate in the meaningful activities of everyday life. Most importantly, individual stories are used to illustrate the meaningful legacies of people with ID.


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Maltreatment of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presents research and evidence-based strategies to prevent and address the maltreatment of people with IDD across the lifespan.

With a life-course perspective and emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, this volume uses a public health framework of surveillance, screening, and intervention. The work also explores the policy implications of strategies to prevent and address the maltreatment of people with IDD. 

Chapters address:

• Childhood maltreatment
• Sexual abuse
• Bullying
• Social vulnerability  
• Reproductive, sexual, and child-rearing rights  
• Parenting with a disability
• Adult Maltreatment
• Older adult victimization  
• Abusive head trauma
• Murder and execution 

Designed for students, clinicians, policymakers, and researchers, this resource provides an in-depth look at the knowledge base in addressing the maltreatment of vulnerable populations.

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While care for people with developmental disabilities has undergone revolutionary improvements, it still isn't unusual for some to wonder why people with developmental disabilities should consider aggressive medical management in specific situations. Further, palliative care for people with intellectual disability is riddled with medical, ethical, and legal complexities for which most professionals receive little training and can turn to very few resources for help.  

End-of-Life Care for Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presents a comprehensive framework under which professionals and families can make decisions that are thoughtful, ethical, and most importantly, respect the wishes of individuals with disabilities. 

Benefits of End-of-Life Care

• Provides factual insights into major medical, ethical, legal, and spiritual issues in end-of-life care to help professionals and families make decisions respecting individual preferences and family values within medically-indicated treatment plans
• Protects people with disabilities who are dying from discrimination and unfair treatment by providing the first comprehensive and concrete framework under which to make major decisions
• Dispels myths on controversial subjects such as Do Not Resuscitate Orders and Persistent Vegetative State
• Presents in-depth information regarding medical conditions encountered at the end of life including neurological, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrinal, and sensory problems as well as issues associated with behavior, orthopedic and bone health, infections, and metabolism
• Helps understand how to anticipate upcoming needs of patients and how to secure resources to assist them for successful planning at the end of life
• Presents historical and foundational materials in end-of-life care, including critical events that have affected the current state of palliative care and practice in medicine, law, and ethics
• Provides perspectives from a diverse group of authors including practicing physicians, medical ethicist, attorneys, sociologists, and gerontologists
• Recognize the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patients, their families, and caregivers
• Identifies the challenge of providing nutritional support at the end-of-life

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People Planning Ahead: Communicating Healthcare and End-of Life Wishes
People Planning Ahead provides a comprehensive and structured way to ensure that loved ones receive care respecting their wishes and conforming to their personal, cultural, and religious beliefs during times of chronic and terminal illness, or severe disability.

Praise for End-of-Life Care

"Discussing many issues surrounding it, from medical advancements, political debates, ethics, and more, End-of-Life Care will prove to be a useful resource and reference for those who are professional caretakers and are not certain how to deal with caring with terminal cases." 
Library Bookwatch: October 2010

"This book will be most helpful to all human service professionals and care providers, including those who do not work with individuals with developmental disabilities. The issues raised by the authors are human, universal and eventually affecting all of us. This book should be in the library of any professional and care provider.” 
Ludwik S. Szymanski, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 

Comprehensive, and compelling, this book is an essential resource for any professional engaged in planning end-of-life care across the lifespan for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” 
Elizabeth Perkins, 

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This special issue of the AAIDD journal Inclusion (v3, n4) is drawn from the work of the National Goals in Research, Practice, and Policy conference, held in August 2015. The conference brought together leaders in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for the purpose of summarizing the current state of knowledge in the field and developing a platform of national goals in research that will have the greatest impact on practice and policy. The articles in this special issue represent the goals developed by the leaders, presenters, and participants in the 10 strands of the conference:

• Self-determination and self-advocacy
• Social inclusion
• Education of children and youth
• Employment and economic self-sufficiency
• Long-term services and supports
• Health and wellness
• Justice
• Aging: Transitions in health, retirement, and late life
• Supporting families across the life course
• Workforce to support the health and community lives of people with IDD

Each article describes the rationale for the goals and their implications in terms of anticipated effects on policy and practice and improvements in the lives of people with IDD.

The co-editors of Inclusion are Michael Wehmeyer and Karrie Shogren of the University of Kansas. The co-editors of this special issue are Amy Hewitt of the University of Minnesota, Tamar Heller of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and John Butterworth of the University of Massachusetts Boston. 

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Written by the AAIDD Ad Hoc Committee on Terminology and Classification:  
Robert L. Schalock, Sharon A. Borthwick-Duffy, Valerie J. Bradley,  Wil H.E. Buntinx, David L. Coulter,  Ellis M. (Pat) Craig, ; Sharon C. Gomez,  Yves Lachapelle, Ruth Luckasson, Alya Reeve,  Karrie A. Shogren,  Martha E. Snell, Scott Spreat, Marc J. Tassé, James R. Thompson,  Miguel A. Verdugo-Alonso,  Michael L. Wehmeyer, and Mark H. Yeager

This manual contains the most current and authoritative information and knowledge on intellectual disability, including best practice guidelines on diagnosing and classifying intellectual disability and developing a system of supports for people living with an intellectual disability.  Written by a committee of 18 experts, Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports, 11th Edition is based on seven years of work on: (1) a synthesis of current information and best practices regarding intellectual disability; (2) numerous reviews and critiques of the 10th edition of the AAIDD definition manual; and (3) feedback from the field regarding a series of articles published by the Committee. This is the first official AAIDD definition manual with the terminology “Intellectual Disability.” 

Featuring Best Practice Guidelines and Discussion for Professionals

 Here’s how you can benefit from this best practice manual:  

• Learn an authoritative definition and diagnostic system of intellectual disability designed to give you a thorough and step-by-step understanding of all the factors that go into determining intellectual disability.
• Consult expert guidelines on critical issues such as the role of assessment in the diagnostic process, challenges faced in quantifying intelligence, evaluating the role of IQ in making a diagnosis, and how to assess adaptive behavior.
• Understand key clinical judgment strategies to enhance the validity and precision of a clinician’s decision on the diagnosis of intellectual disability.
• Discover the relationship between the AAIDD System and other diagnostic systems.
• Read detailed discussions on the 10 dimensions of support areas in a person’s life and various approaches to individualized service planning.
• Learn about the unique needs of people with intellectual disability with higher IQs.
• Learn how to apply the AAIDD Definition System within special education systems, public policy initiatives, and provider organizations. 

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User's Guide
This practical User's Guide to the 2010 AAIDD Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports manual informs clinicians, educators, policy makers, and program managers how to implement the various components of the AAIDD definition system in their specific job settings. The authors discuss the contemporary relevance of the supports-based AAIDD definition in the context of issues ranging from special education practices and IDEA mandates, to diagnosing individuals with higher IQ and conducting retroactive diagnoses. Policy makers and program managers will benefit from discussions on how the supports paradigm can improve quality outcomes, and how the current system incorporates the consensus in the field to utilize a supportsbased approach.

Praise for the 11th Edition

“The 11th edition of the AAIDD Definition Manual continues our progress in both describing a person with an intellectual disability in several dimensions, not solely based on IQ or Adaptive Behavior, and integrating further the concept of supports into the definition and practice.  Refinements based on an extensive feedback system, both in the field and in peer-reviewed literature are incorporated making the 11th edition the most advanced tool of its kind.” 
Steven M. Eidelman, Professor and Co-Director, National Leadership Consortium, University of Delaware
 
"An excellent, up-to-date reference enthusiastically recommended for college library collections and teh resource shelves of aspiring and practicising psychologists." 
Library Bookwatch, February 2010

“An indispensable desk-top reference and primer on assessing intellectual disability that includes a compendium of leading practices on structuring effective life-long supports.” 
 Renee L. Pietrangelo, CEO, ANCOR
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Coming January 2021
Intellectual Disability: Definition, Diagnosis,    Classification, and Systems of Supports, 12th Edition
The AAIDD definition manual leads the field in understanding,  defining diagnosing, and classifying the construct of intellectual disability (ID). The 12th edition – the first in 10 years – includes new findings and developments from the last 10 years, including the planning of supports for people with ID.
It will be available from the AAIDD bookstore by the end of January, 2021.

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“The national goals book does something not done anywhere else. In one place, with a coherent structure, all the major issues impacting people with intellectual disabilities across the lifespan are address, by some of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. This is an indispensable volume for students, researchers and practitioners.” Steve Eidelman, former Director of The Arc of the United States

“National Goals provides much needed guidance for the formulation of public policy and future action that will benefit people with intellectual disabilities in the United States and as such, this publication challenges us all to take those actions.” Nancy Thaler, Director for Quality Improvement Strategies for Home and Community Based Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 

“Many federal agencies and much federal legislation call on diverse stakeholders to work together on issues of importance to persons with disabilities. The National Goals book derived from the conference is an exceptional example of the wisdom of such expectations. The many federal and state government, professional, advocacy and academic agencies and organizations that supported this effort should take pride in the product of their commitments and contributions. Most importantly, in that same spirit, they should continue to work together to fulfill the recommendations and achieve the goals outlined in the book.” Robert (Bobby) Silverstein, Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy 

National Goals is America’s first effort to assess the status of the nation with regards to its fulfillment of research goals for persons with intellectual disabilities in areas such as education, positive behavior support, biomedical research, technology, transition planning, health supports, employment, self advocacy, aging, and community supports. The state of the knowledge and research contained in the book in areas such as education, positive behavior support, health supports, biomedical research, technology, and aging makes it an indispensable resource to anyone delivering quality care and services to citizens with intellectual disabilities. The book comes out of a groundbreaking, federal conference held in 2003. America’s prominent leaders in the intellectual disability met in Washington, DC to review what this nation knows and needs to learn specifically in the area of research to fulfill the promises made to persons with developmental disabilities. 

In the words of the authors, research plays a central role in defining and achieving national goals for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. To be useful, this research must provide accessible, relevant information to people with disabilities and their families, professionals, the general public, and public officials. The result is a book that distills scientific research into comprehensible and accessible information so that key stake holders can align the reality of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities with public policy—the clear and unambiguous promises made to them in the national legislation, court decisions, promises of the President, and other sources of national policy.

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AAIDD is committed to enhancing the capacity of professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are launching the Nuts & Bolts series as an initiative to assist disability professionals and others quickly learn and apply the leading methods to promote effective practices, sound research, progressive policies, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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People Planning Ahead provides a comprehensive and structured way to ensure that loved ones receive care respecting their wishes and conforming to their personal, cultural, and religious beliefs during times of chronic and terminal illness, or severe disability. The book and the accompanying CD-ROM are designed to capture detailed information on an individual;from basic health information and preferences on blood transfusions to the individual's traits and personality types. Successful application of information gathered through People Planning Ahead ensures that individuals proceed through care and end-of-life stages with minimum adversity and maximum dignity.

Features

• Provides a structured way for planners to gather and organize information on a person's values, goals, and life and turn it into a detailed life plan.
• Contains guidelines on planning stages of lives of an illness.
• Includes plain language definitions of such terms as living wills, advance directives, competency, and capacity as well as other insights into end-of-life issues.
• Electronic questionnaires on accompanying CD-ROM make it easy to store and archive essential information.
• Assists a person no matter where they may be on the wellness continuum, from healthy adults to those diagnosed with terminal illnesses. 
• Comes with customized training workshops on end-of-life and person-centered planning.

Benefits

• Provides a structured way for planners to gather and organize information on a person's values, goals, and life and turn it into a detailed life plan.
• Ensures that the clearest and most detailed portfolio of the individual is available for families and professionals to use as a reference for future contingencies.
• Detailed planning forms on CD-ROM offer instructive and step-by-step examples on how to use information in real-life situations; electronic format makes it easy to store and archive information.
• Based on the principles of Essential Lifestyle Planning, an approach focused on maintaining the independence and autonomy of a person by acquiring information about their life preferences

Who Can Use This Book

People Planning Ahead follows the person-centered model to help the family member or professional guide an individual on his or her own personal journey to consider and define what is most important. The manual is written for:

• Disability professionals such as clinical coordinators or case managers in state agencies, institutions, or assisted living facilities
• Geriatric care managers in hospitals, departments of aging, or independent homes
• Social workers in hospices and other palliative care services
• Family members

Praise

"In striving to protect an individual’s right to die well, the People Planning Ahead workbook results in a succinct summary of what makes each person unique and what matters to him or her most about living. As a practicing physician, I consider this manual to be an invaluable for assessing an individual's quality of life and preserving true continuity of person-centered aspects of care across a variety of settings."
Ira Brock, MD, Director of Palliative Care, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, author of Dying Well and The Four Things that Matter Most

"I recommend this workbook to anyone and everyone who will have a say in how we will support people in their last days. The importance of this work cannot be overstated."
Michael Smull, Chair, Learning Community for Person Centered Practices

"People Planning Ahead brings together the best of theory and practice in person centered planning and end-of-life planning, and helps families and professionals face end-of-life experiences with thoughtfulness and hope rather than simply experiencing it as crisis and failure."
The Rev. Bill Gaventa, Director, Community and Congregational Supports, The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities