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About the Partnership to Ensure Reform of Supports in Other Nations (PERSON) Project

Partnership to Ensure Reform of Supports in Other Nations (PERSON) Project States the objectives of the PERSON projecting, including enhancing the participation of civil society in legislative and policy reform on legal capacity to ensure domestic implementation of the UN CRPD, and bringing together like-minded civil society organizations in Balkan states to support people with …

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Academic Identity Development Through Self-Determination: Successful College Students with Learning Disabilities

Article describes a study that seeks to provide a model of academic identity for college students with learning disabilities. The study floats the “integrative self-determination” themes of persistence, competence, career decision making, and self-realization. Author(s): Tina M. Anctil, Michele E. Ishikawa, Amy Tao Scott Publication Date: December 2008 Publisher: Career Developoment for Exceptional Individuals Source: …

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Adult Outcomes for Students with Cognitive Disabilities Three-Years After High School: The Impact of Self-Determination

Adult Outcomes for Students with Cognitive Disabilities Three-Years After High School: The Impact of Self-Determination (PDF) “Reports a follow-up study of school leavers with [intellectual and developmental disabilities] who were surveyed 1- and 3-years after they left school to determine what they were doing in major life areas.” Determines that self-determination has yielded positive effects. …

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Adult Ward Should Have Right to Vote

Adult ward should have right to vote: court Tokyo District Court ruled unconstitutional the provision in the Public Offices Election Law that strips the right to vote from adults helped by guardians. The trial focused on whether the rights to vote and to run for office can be regulated based on intellectual disabilities, and whether it is reasonable …

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Alternatives to Guardianship

Alternatives to Guardianship A parallel can be drawn between guardianship and intestacy (distribution of property after death without a will): both result from failure to plan, and both involve massive intervention in individual affairs. But with guardianship, more than property is at stake: the fabric of later life, its potential creativity, and personal autonomy at …

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Assessing the Capacity to Make Everyday Decisions: A Guide for Clinicians and an Agenda for Future Research

Assessing the Capacity to Make Everyday Decisions: A Guide for Clinicians and an Agenda for Future Research Assessing the capacity of patients to make decisions about their functional problems has substantial ethical, clinical, and financial implications. The growing population of older adults with cognitive impairment either in the community or in long-term care and medical …

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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 (PDF) This law is an attempt to reform the law with respect to those that may need assistance in exercising their decision-making capacity. Author(s): Houses of the Oireachtas (Ireland) Publication Date: 2013 Publisher: Houses of the Oireachtas (Ireland) Source: www.oireachtas.ie