How much additional evidence do we need that the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) must be radically restructured and reformed? As parents of adult children with intellectual disabilities, we were horrified to read the federal government’s chilling indictment of DDS’s failure to safeguard people in its care: Connecticut Did Not Comply with Federal and State Requirements for Critical Incidents Involving Developmentally Disabled Medicaid Beneficiaries (A-01-14-00002), released May 25.

