Organization Overview

The Canadian Association for Research and Education in Intellectual Disabilities (CARE-ID) / Association canadienne pour la recherche et l’enseignement en deficience intellectuelle (ACREDI) is currently being established. This national association will serve individual researchers, educators, clinicians, and students who have an interest in intellectual disability, as well as organisations whose missions are related to persons with intellectual disabilities (ID).

Momentum has been gaining in recent years within the research, education, and clinical practice community to establish a national association that will seek to achieve the following objectives:

1. promote increased research and training in intellectual disabilities;

2. promote knowledge-based best practices that respond to the needs and experiences of persons with intellectual disabilities;

3. facilitate linkages and knowledge transfer among researchers, educators, policy-makers, care givers, families, and other members of the community who interact with or serve the interests of persons with intellectual disabilities;

4. and inform policy influencers to support and increase research and education in intellectual disabilities.