APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Volume 1: Foundations Volume 2: Clinical and Educational Implications: Prevention, ... (APA Handbooks in Psychology® Series)

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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook presents the latest research in the study, assessment, treatment, and understanding of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The past five decades have resulted in dramatic breakthroughs in the understanding of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Editor-in-Chief Laraine Masters Glidden and her editorial team provide an overview of the historical foundations of the field of IDD as well as up-to-date material on clinical diagnosis, assessment, interventions, and treatments for such conditions.
It goes on to address legal, ethical, and educational issues; and other social issues that affect the lives of people with IDD, including family impact and adjustment, relationships and parenting, spirituality, residential and caretaking services, maltreatment and criminal justice issues, stigma and ableism, health, and aging.
Chapters address the etiology and treatment of specific conditions (including Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, other genetic and chromosomal conditions, autism spectrum disorder, acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders) as well as functioning in multiple domains and throughout the lifespan.
Contributing causes to IDD are explored within various contexts such as culture, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
About the Author
Laraine Masters Glidden, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She earned her BA from Mount Holyoke College in 1964, going on to pursue graduate study in experimental psychology, including research in classical conditioning and learning and memory. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois in 1970. 
Dr. Glidden has maintained an active research, teaching, and administrative career over the past 50 years. Grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation and other organizations helped to fund her research, including the longitudinal Project Parenting Study, funded by the NICHD for 25 years.
Dr. Glidden’s research, writing, editing, and series editing work has resulted in the publication of one authored book and 17 edited books; additionally, she has published 20 book chapters and 79 peerreviewed articles and book reviews. She has received multiple awards and recognitions for her contributions to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities, including The Arc Distinguished Research Award in 2008, an appointment as a Global Scholar of Special Olympics International in 2011, and the Edgar A. Doll Award for Lifetime Achievements in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities from APA Division 33 in 2015.
Leonard Abbeduto, PhD, Associate Editor, is the director of the MIND Institute, the Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair, and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Abbeduto’s research is focused on the development of language across the lifespan in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and on the family context for language development. Dr. Abbeduto has published more than 200 articles, chapters, reviews, and books on fragile X syndrome, autism, Down syndrome, and child development. His program of research has been funded nearly continuously by NIH since 1985. Dr. Abbeduto has received numerous awards, including the Emil H. Steiger Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the Faculty Stewardship Award from the UC Davis; the Enid and William Rosen Research Award from the National Fragile X Foundation; and the Edgar A. Doll Award for Distinguished Research Contribution from APA Division 33. Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD, Associate Editor, is professor and head of the Department of