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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan

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Children with developmental disabilities are at increased risk of maltreatment and of entering the child protection system. Maltreatment and adverse early experiences can seriously exacerbate a child’s disability. Nurturing, stable and consistent family based foster care can make a positive impact on a child’s development. Factors associated with optimal outcomes in foster care for children with developmental disabilities include, placement stability, consistency in care giving, and specialist support for foster carers. Therapeutic or treatment foster care programs provide a much higher level of support to these children and their foster carers than generic foster care.

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  1. Manager Counselling and Inclusion UniSA, City East Campus, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, 5001, Australia

    Julie Dini BA,DipAppPsych,B.SocAdmin,MAPS

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  1. Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability and Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    I. Leslie Rubin

  2. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical Services, Division for Developmental and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel

    Joav Merrick

  3. Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Donald E. Greydanus  & Dilip R. Patel  & 

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Dini, J. (2016). Foster Care. In: Rubin, I.L., Merrick, J., Greydanus, D.E., Patel, D.R. (eds) Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_9

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