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Residential and Day Services

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Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Thinking about the current state of affairs in residential and day services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) prompted reflection first on the conditions and events that existed when I entered the field in 1965. My first experience was as an undergraduate assistant in a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health. The performance site for the grant was a ward in a large state residential facility. The ward provided residential and day services to at least 35 boys with severe or profound intellectual disability (ID) and diagnoses of mental illness. The setting consisted of a congregate bedroom, congregate bathroom, congregate dining room, a large “day” room, and a concrete “porch” with chain link “walls.” My recollection is that aside from grant staff, three or four regular direct service workers supported the children during the morning and evening shifts.

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  1. Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045

    Richard R. Saunders

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  1. NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Albany, New York

    John W. Jacobson

  2. Department of Pediatrics and Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA

    James A. Mulick

  3. Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Johannes Rojahn

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Saunders, R.R. (2007). Residential and Day Services. In: Jacobson, J.W., Mulick, J.A., Rojahn, J. (eds) Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Issues on Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32931-5_11

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