Audience: Academia

Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities

This paper provides a general overview of the situation of people with intellectual disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on access to education and employment, and suggests steps to address barriers to social inclusion. Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Full Report – 191 pages Access to …

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Something to Talk About: Supported Decision Making and Access to Justice for All

This articles raises—and begins too answer—questions about how to provide the accommodations, including acceptance of SDM, that enable people with I/DD and older people with dementia, etc. to participate in court proceedings on an equal basis with others as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Author: Elizabeth Moran – American Bar Association Something …

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Preliminary Results Reveled

NEW: Preliminary Results from our Supported Decision-Making Survey

People are telling us how they are supported and how it makes them feel, Supporters are telling us how less restrictive options to guardianship were identified, considered, and decided, We are hearing about the impact of supported decision-making relative to a more restricted role in decision-making through guardianship, and Respondents are telling us what lessons …

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Self-Directed Care Calendar 2019

The NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Living and Participation of People with Serious Mental Illness (TU Collaborative) at Temple University has published the 2019 Self-Directed Care Calendar. The calendar focuses on personal medicine, a type of self-directed care that allows a person with a serious mental illness to obtain the resources they …

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