Standing for Those With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

Abstract

It is time for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), their families, the village that supports them, and the healthcare professionals that are responsible for their well-being to grab their pitchforks and storm the castle to end the purposeful exclusion by our government to designate them a medically underserved population (MUP). We (the authors) define IDD as people having a diagnosis of autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and hundreds of other genetic syndromes.