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The 12 Days of E-Hall allows JMU students to submerge themselves in a festive atmosphere before heading home for the holidays. But for the adults living at Pleasant View, a Christian-based adult home for people with intellectual disabilities, theyâre more isolated than ever before.
Many of these individuals are isolated in their living areas because of COVID-19 and donât have access to the same technology that others do to stay social online. To bring some holiday cheer and social interaction to these residents, the students and teacher of Exceptional Education 330, Survey of Intellectual Disabilities, a class at JMU, threw a virtual holiday Zoom party Dec. 10.Â
UC Davis will create four-year program for students with intellectual disabilities
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Team Davis participants celebrate with Davis Police officers, including Natalie Corona (third from left), at the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Special Olympics Northern California Summer Games at UC Davis. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise file photo
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The UC Davis MIND Institute and the UC Davis Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will create an inclusive four-year college program for students with intellectual disabilities. The program, which is made possible by a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, will be the first of its kind in the Western United States.
New Program Aims To Train Doctors On Developmental Disabilities
by Michelle Diament | December 11, 2020
First-year medical students learn to use an automated external defibrillator. Federal funding will go toward developing trainings for students in health fields on treating people with developmental disabilities. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times/TNS)
A new effort is underway to better prepare future doctors and other health care professionals to treat people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living has allocated $1.75 million over the next five years toward the initiative, which will bring together five universities to study existing trainings and develop materials and standardized practice experiences that can be incorporated into the curriculum for students in medical education.
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