{"id":1598,"date":"2026-03-26T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:52:45","slug":"including-people-with-down-syndrome-and-intellectual-disabilities-in-research-that-affects-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/26\/including-people-with-down-syndrome-and-intellectual-disabilities-in-research-that-affects-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Including People with Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities in Research That Affects Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-bottom:1px solid:#ccc; padding:15px 0; overflow:auto;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden; float:left; width:75%;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 5px 0; font-size:14px;\">\n      By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/amy-laskowski\/\">Amy Laskowski<\/a>, Photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/jackie-ricciardi\/\">Jackie Ricciardi<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 5px 0; font-size:14px;\">\n      Featuring <a href=\"\/rubenstein\/profile\/eric-rubenstein\/\">Eric Rubenstein<\/a>, <a href=\"\/rubenstein\/profile\/ashley-scott\/\">Ashley Scott<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/rubenstein\/profile\/dan-odonnell\/\">Dan O&#8217;Donnell<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 5px 0; font-size:16px;\">\n      This article from The Brink highlights how the Rubenstein lab works directly with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to make healthcare research more inclusive, especially around aging with IDD.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right; width:23%; text-align:right;\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/research-lab-down-syndrome-intellectual-disabilities\/\"><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/lab-brink-2026.jpg\" alt=\"SPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Eric Rubenstein (right) Dan O'Donnell and lab manager Ashley Scott pose for a photo on October 23, 2025. His lab researches people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities.  Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" style=\"border-radius:10px;\"><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5>Read the full article here:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin:0; font-size:14px;\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/research-lab-down-syndrome-intellectual-disabilities\/\">Including People with Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities in Research That Affects Them<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amy Laskowski, Photos by Jackie Ricciardi Featuring Eric Rubenstein, Ashley Scott, and Dan O&#8217;Donnell This article from The Brink highlights how the Rubenstein lab works directly with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to make healthcare research more inclusive, especially around aging with IDD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}