Disrupting 'Tolerant Segregation' of People who Live with IDD
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TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Up to 4% of the United States population, or 7 to 8 million Americans, live with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
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- TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Up to 4% of the United States population, or 7 to 8 million Americans, live with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
- After starting in the field in the late 1990s soon after his residency, Dr. Escud still didn't have much knowledge about IDD, even though he had gone to medical school.
- KJ interviews bad asses who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress.
- "People with intellectual disability are twice as likely to die a preventable death," UNSW Sydney Newsroom, February 8, 2017, newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/people-intellectual-disability-are-twice-likely-die-preventable-death