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Forum: "We Can’t Go Back"
The Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities recently held a town hall at ICI to hear people with disabilities, their family members, and others tell how cutting Medicaid and closing federal agencies affects them. Staff members of Minnesota’s U.S. Senators and two Members of Congress listened. "This work actually matters in people’s lives," said ICI researcher Sarah Hall (pictured with microphone).
ICI Shines at Research Day
Several ICI teams recently presented critical ongoing work to improve the lives of people with disabilities, from documenting the prevalence of autism to reimagining how to assist young adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who are transitioning from school to adult life. "Research Day is a wonderful opportunity to highlight work happening here and around the world that has the power to meaningfully improve the lives of people experiencing all kinds of barriers."
New Autism Prevalence Findings in Minnesota
New data from the Minnesota-Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (part of a 16-state CDC network) shows that 1 in 28 (3.6%) 8-year-old children in Minnesota have autism. The CDC found that, on average, 1 in 31 (3.2%) children were identified as having autism in communities where the ADDM Network tracked prevalence in 2022, an increase from 1 in 36 in 2020. This estimate does not represent the entire population of children in the United States.
