Forging a federal-state partnership
Subtitle: a history of federal developmental disabilities policy
By: Robert M. Gettings
Publisher: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781935304111
Subjects: Federal aid to services for people with disabilities; Government policy; Finance; Law and legislation; People with mental disabilities; Medicaid; Services for; Developmentally disabled; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of education and social services funding during the early years; title: The Developmental Disabilities Act and the road to entitlement-based funding; title: Litigation: the double-edged sword of disability policy; title: The ICF/MR experience: the foundation of Medicaid funding; title: Medicaid home and community-based services: the little engine that could; title: Other key components of Medicaid policy: putting the pieces together; title: Social security and SSI payments: the quest for economic security; title: Applying history's lessons to contemporary challenges.