Promoting the intellectual disability specialty within clinical psychology training; what are the barriers and how can we overcome them?

Easy to read summary ■ Even though more psychologists are being trained, it can still be hard for Intellectual Disability (ID) services to employ psychologists. ■ This article talks about the psychology training process and how this might not encourage people to work in ID. ■ We give some ideas of things that might help during training, so that Trainees can learn more about working in ID services. ■ We hope this might make them more likely to consider working in ID services. ■ This is important because if there are not enough psychologists in ID services, people with intellectual disabilities may struggle to find the psychological help they need.