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Intellectual Disabilities

Center for Dignity in Healthcare for People with Disabilities - Help! I Need a Therapist! Guide is a guide for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to become good shoppers for mental health services.

The Arc is serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families. State and local chapters provide individual and public policy advocacy, residential, education, vocational services, financial planning and in-person support groups that meet needs of the I/DD community.

The Arc Center for Future Planning offers an online Build Your Plan feature to plan for an person with I/DD throughout their lifetime, an online finder for local resources and a video gallery where others share about their plans for themselves and/or a loved one.