Review this fact sheet developed by the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) to encourage dialogue around the importane of ensuring everyone has the right to self-determination, voice, and choice in the pursuit of life experiences. Researchers have found with regularity that when a person with an Intellectual Developmental Disability has opportunity to choose and try important and meaningful life experiences, they have a higher quality of life. Engagement in fulfilling experiences and activities is related to higher self-efficacy and higher likelihood for community belonging and the development of important social relationships outside of their family and paid support.