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2025
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Lynda Anderson, Sandra L. Pettingell, Julie Bershadsky, Amy Hewitt
Direct support professionals (DSPs) and frontline supervisors (FLSs) play a crucial role in the delivery of home and community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). A four-wave study was launched to understand the experiences of DSPs and FLSs during …
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2024
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Tawara D. Goode, Julie Bershadsky, Amy Hewitt
In September of 2022, the University of Minnesota’s Research and Training Center on Community Living in collaboration with the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence held a virtual gathering of leaders in and outside of the field of intellectual and developmental …
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2024
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Carol Britton Laws, Amy Hewitt, Daniel A. Boamah, Dorothy Hiersteiner et autres
In the United States, direct support professionals (DSPs) support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) so they can live in the community. Thirty years of deinstitutionalization and the development of community living options would not have been possible without DSPs. Although …
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2023
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Sandra L. Pettingell, Julie Bershadsky, Amy Hewitt, Lynda Anderson et autres
Direct support professionals (DSPs) are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19. A four-wave survey series was conducted, in part, to understand DSPs' COVID-19 vaccination experiences. Fourth wave data were used to compare those vaccinated against COVID-19 when they became eligible (early adopters) …
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2023
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Michael López, Tiffany White, Julie L. Daniels, Amy Hewitt et autres
Problem/Condition: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Period Covered: 2014. Description of System: The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network is an active surveillance system that provides estimates of the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged 8 years whose parents …
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2023
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Sandra L. Pettingell, Julie Bershadsky, Lynda Anderson, Amy Hewitt et autres
Direct support professionals (DSPs) and frontline supervisors (FLSs) have critical roles in home and community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Low wages and high levels of responsibility created a long-term crisis in recruitment and retention and are exacerbated by …
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2023
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Sandra L. Pettingell, Julie Bershadsky, Amy Hewitt, Lynda Anderson et autres
Direct support professionals (DSPs) may be at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 due to the proximal nature of their work. In response to the pandemic a three-wave study was launched to understand experiences of DSPs. An on-line national survey found that 70% …
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2022
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Anita C. Randolph, Alex Henry, Amy Hewitt, Angie Mejia et autres
Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis represented the epicenter of protests that would reverberate internationally and re-instantiate a reckoning of the systemic and institutional racism that plagues American society. Also in the summer of 2020, and after …
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2022
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Sarah A. Hall, Lynda Anderson, Sandra L. Pettingell, Alicia Zhang et autres
Direct support professionals (DSPs) and frontline supervisors (FLSs) play an invaluable role in delivering home and community-based services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). DSPs provide support with employment, community living, developing social connections, health and well-being, and many other …
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2022
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Liyam Laraba, Lily Hillson, Julio Grimm de Guibert, Amy Hewitt et autres
Schwannoma tumours typically arise on the eighth cranial nerve and are mostly caused by loss of the tumour suppressor Merlin (NF2). There are no approved chemotherapies for these tumours and the surgical removal of the tumour carries a high risk of damage …
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2022
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Amy Hewitt, J. Smith, Liz Weintraub
The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard for everyone. For the estimated seven and a half million people in the United States who live with intellectual disability (Residential Information Systems Project, 2020), it has been very hard. Lives have been disrupted by lost …
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2022
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Sandra L. Pettingell, James Houseworth, Renáta Tichá, Julie E. D. Kramme et autres
Direct support professionals (DSPs) provide a range of supports in a variety of settings to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who count on these supports to live, work, and contribute in their communities. Despite this, high annual DSP turnover rates …
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