Amazon.com description: Product Description: The content of this book is a synthesis of a project that began as a response to a number of requests regarding how the authors friendship with an individual with intellectual and developmental disabilities became transformative for both of them. It was developed as a means of bridging the gap between national policy statements and their implementation on the local level. This is a straightforward, informative text that will benefit staff at service provider agencies; resource coordinators; families; national, state, and local developmental disabilities organizations; university research centers, and, most important, people who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Since 1876, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has been providing worldwide leadership in the field of disabilities. AAIDD is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization of professionals and citizens concerned about intellectual and developmental disabilities.

AAIDD publishes books for professionals in developmental disability in the areas of:

-Supported living
-Definition of intellectual disability
-Disability funding
-Positive behavior support
-Palliative care
-Quality of life
-Health