CDC Launches Covid-19 Resources For People With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created a COVID-19 toolkit with communication resources explaining successful plain connection how people with disabilities and caregivers tin support themselves from the virus.

COVID-19 affected those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) successful a unsocial way.

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“People with intellectual and developmental disabilities can acquisition connection barriers that marque it harder for them to understand and act connected important wellness guidance,” said Karen Remley, MD, director of CDC’s National Center connected Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.

To marque the toolkit much effective, the CDC had aggregate discussions with caregivers and adults with IDD. They asked them to stock their idiosyncratic experiences and what they recovered adjuvant successful talking about COVID-19 with their loved ones.

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The toolkit contains societal stories, videos, posters, and interactive activities that absorption connected 5 topics:

• Getting a COVID-19 vaccine
• Wearing a mask
• Social distancing
• Hand washing
• Getting a COVID-19 test

“These materials tin assistance parents oregon different caregivers of people with IDD navigate important conversations about COVID-19,” said Remley.

Visit CDC’s afloat suite of COVID-19 materials for people with IDD and their caregivers.

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CBS Baltimore Staff