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Stories of Interest
And they call some of these
people "retarded"...
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What
matters in this life is helping others win, even if it means slowing
down and changing our course.
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Arthur's Story
My name is Arthur Streisfeld. I am a 54 year
old man with a developmental disability. I was 52 when I got involved
with self-determination. Self-determination changed my life.
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Autism in Paradise
Having just returned from a short trip to Hawaii with my son
Matthew, I feel compelled to share with you an experience I had on the
remote, sparsely populated East Shore of Oahu, an experience that
documents and illustrates that there is serious trouble in paradise too.
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Good Staff, Bad Staff,
No Staff At All
Jim Beaty and Nathan Perry are two
consumers of
the services provided by direct support
professionals in the community. When asked to
describe the impact of direct service workforce
development on their lives, they shared the
following thoughts.
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Katie's
Sojourn to Full Inclusion
Upon
moving to Pennsylvania we ran into too many
bureaucratic roadblocks to Katie's
inclusive education to mention. The major
roadblocks were an educational system not prepared to meet the
individual needs of all of its students.
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Psychiatric Disability: Myths and Realities
As someone who was labeled with a psychiatric disability, and who has
recovered to lead a full and satisfying life, I am frequently assumed to
be somehow atypical, or told that I was "misdiagnosed." The fact is that
people who have been labeled with "schizophrenia,"
"manic-depression/bi-polar illness," "clinical depression," and other
severe psychiatric diagnoses are capable of complete recovery and
achieving self-determination in their lives. Like people with other
disabilities, sometimes the biggest thing that holds us back are
negative attitudes.
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The Language Of "Us" and
"They"
We like things.
They fixate
on objects.
We try to make
friends.
They display
attention-seeking behaviors.
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God, Do You Care?
This article was first written as a letter to
some parents of children with Down Syndrome. I would really rather sit
down over a cup of coffee and just open my Bible and talk with someone
in person, but obviously that might be very difficult to manage.
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Publicly-owned Nursing Homes
- A Strategy.
Below is a state-by-state breakdown of nursing homes that are "publicly
owned," either by your State, your county or your city. The Olmstead
decision held that unnecessary segregation in institutions was
discrimination and a violation of the ADA.
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Self Determination Is..
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Living a life that is always changing and
growing, never fixed.
- Deciding what I want in life and setting my
own goals.
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Beyond Programs: A Parable
In the beginning, there was placement, and lo we were happy when it
happened, as placement was not mandated for adults who happened to
experience severe disabilities. And so, we said, this is good. And
placements multiplied and filled the earth.
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