Articles and Information
for Your Browsing Pleasure
Supported and Interdependent Living
Interdependent Living: A Healthy and Healing Lifestyle, an article reprinted here with the permssion of author Bill Rush. After you're read this great piece, you'll find a link to his website.
Things are changing.
Moving from supported living to . . . by Michael Smull.
A brief overview about assistive technology and supported living.
A home of one's own.
Can you make Jello to stand up?.
Scott's Home
It's about Charlie . . .
Keith's Story
Mary's Story
Some thoughts about paid roommates.
The principles of supported living by Jay Klein.
A discussion of the risks and opportunities involved in providing and using supported living services.
Moving toward a system of support by Michael Smull.
Support service brokerage by Michael Smull and Gary Smith.
Person Centered Planning
A wonderful article by Tim Weiss (parent in Alaska) titled Seeing the Whole Child: Mapping Action Plans for an IEP.
A resource list about person centered planning.
A brief overview of the research literature about decision-making.
A brief report on some quantitative outcomes from a decision-making curriculum project.
Choice revisited by Michael Smull.
After the Plan by Michael Smull.
More than a meeting: a pocket guide to the person-centered IPP.
Person centered planning and perversion prevention by Michael Smull and Susan Burke Harrison.
Personal Assistance Services
A packet of materials for use in hiring attendant services.
An overview on In Home Supportive Services.
The executive summary of a report about a support service for people using personal assistance services.
Supported Employment
What I would want my job coach to know and do by Michael Smull.
A brief overview of the 1992 Reauthorization of the Rehabilitation Act.
Transition Planning and Special Education
Full inclusion and the value of students with severe disabilities by Michael Smull.
Other
From time to time, we all work on problems with groups of people. Here is an outline of
several ways that we have found helpful in that work.
A pilot proposal alone or as part of a larger initiative to test various cost-effective, more flexible service and support options.
A competency-based inservice module on reporting abuse. We developed this piece in 1992 for California, so look at it carefully in terms cutting, pasting and updating.
A brief recap of articles on group homes and property values. While the information is getting old, we still get requests for it.
A workbook about voting in understandable language by the Area IV Board.
Planning and the Golden Rule is an article that says a lot about everyone's neighborhood and was written by Art Bolton.
A true story titled Victor's New Home.
Technology resources in California.
A Modest Proposal . . . is a old article from the TASH Newsletter that still holds some truth.
Things to look for in a place of your own.
An overview on local housing resources.
An overview on local transportation resources.
A 3 part classic Where's the Jello? on the ICFDDH 'experience' by John Shea.
An overview on Section 8 housing subsidies.
An overview on trusts and wills.
Basic Facts about Social Security.
Book and video resources on self advocacy.
Promoting self advocacy through the Individual Service Plan.
A listing of all twenty-one regional centers in California.
ASA
A bunch of stuff about our business history.
Information about publications from our archives.
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