Data Briefs: Change in Residential Placements for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the USA in the Last Two Decades.

Lakin, K. Charlie; Prouty, Robert; Polister, Barbara; Coucouvanis, Kathie

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ERIC Number: EJ673039

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Data Briefs: Change in Residential Placements for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the USA in the Last Two Decades.

Lakin, K. Charlie; Prouty, Robert; Polister, Barbara; Coucouvanis, Kathie

Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, v28 n2 p205-10 Jun 2003

This article summarizes trends indicating a shift from institutional services to services in small community settings, an operational transformation from state government being the provider of services to being the purchaser, a shift from state financing of community services to federal-state cost-sharing, and an increase in people receiving services. (Contains 4 references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Population Trends, Residential Institutions, State Federal Aid, State Programs, Student Placement, Trend Analysis

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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