Toward Equity in Research on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Sara T Kover, Leonard Abbeduto
PMID 37644865WHAT IT FOUND
There are no findings to act on in this paper.
It is a conceptual article about equity in intellectual and developmental disability research. It discusses bias in diagnoses, samples, tests, and recruitment, but reports no participants, outcomes, or tested interventions.
What this paper is
This is a conceptual article about equity in intellectual and developmental disability research. It reviews models of disability, sample representation, measurement bias, recruitment barriers, and proposed partnership approaches. It reports no methods, participants, outcomes, or tested interventions, so there is no finding to act on.
Declared interests
The article is listed as supported by NIH extramural research. No author conflict of interest statement is included in the supplied text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that any intervention, assessment, or recruitment change improves outcomes. It reports no trial, participants, or results, so its suggestions are proposals for research systems, not tested clinical effects.