Currents Trends in Supporting People with IDD and their families
Here’s a curated roundup of the most current articles, research, and websites on supporting people with IDD and their families.
Community and Relationship Building Tool Sheet
This is a quick reference guide on using community and relationship building tools. Most of these tools have been adapted with permission from Community Connecting by HSA Press (ISBN 978 1 906514 05 1) for NorthStar Services Placerville, CA. You will find it here.
7 Questions that Those Who Support People with Disabilities Should Be Able to Answer
Those who support and those who develop plans with people who have disabilities should be able to answer the following 7 questions. The plans that are written with people who use disability services should contain these answers. The services and supports provided should reflect the answers to these questions.
LGBTQ+ Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Need Supportive Caregivers
Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) are often victims of discrimination simply because they have a disability. People with ID who identify as LGBTQ+ face further bullying and harassment simply because of whom they choose to love or how they express their identity. Read the complete article by Margaret Walsh here.
Supporting People with Severe Reputations in the Community
While written over thirty years ago this piece, by Michael Smull and Susan Burke Harrison, is a classic and one of the first pieces written about person-centered planning and thinking in action. It deserves a read or reread. The handbook presents the tools needed to develop better community capacity to support people with “severe reputations.’ … Read more
Helping people find a balance: the role of the facilitator or being right is not enough
by Michael Smull As we help people learn to do person centered planning with people with disabilities, repeatedly those who do the training are asked what to do when what the person appears to want conflicts with what a parent or guardian wants. As people learn to do plans they also ask what they should … Read more
“4 Ways That ‘Our Minds Are Fine’ Is Ableist Toward Cognitively Disabled Folks”
A description and link to an article by Cara Liebowitz on identity first and people first language has been viewed on this site hundreds of times (find the link here). She recently wrote a follow-up article on the views of ableist views of some individuals with physical disabilities. Below is. a summary and link to … Read more
Art Bolton From the Bronx to California
Art is credited with playing a major role in writing the Lanterman Act in California. This is the story of how he traveled from the Bronx to California. He was also a great guy! Below you will find links to two YouTube videos. One is the back story of the Lanterman Act and the other … Read more
Person Centered Outcomes
Person centered planning is learning how people want to live, about what is important to someone in everyday life and discovering someone might want to live in the future. However, as Michael Smull has said, “a plan is not an outcome.” And as Helen Sanderson has said “Outcomes describe the specific things that the person … Read more
Person-centered planning and perversion prevention
Person-centered planning, in all of its forms, is moving from something done by a few enthusiasts to an activity that is being widely adopted and adapted. As it leaves the caring hands of the pioneers there are concerns for how it will be used. Our experience suggests that abuses generally arise from a lack of … Read more