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  • Reaching for Linda's Dreams

    Linda is a young woman with autism whose challenging behaviour was increasingly distancing people from her. With the involvement of Linda's parents, key allies and Linda herself, a Personal Futures Planning meeting was held, with the idea of providing Linda the opportunity to take some control over her life.

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  • Practical and Useful Tools for Change

    If we are to embrace inclusion we need to use new and creative tools for change. Forest & Pearpoint have designed four questions to be used by families, groups and organisations with the aim of moving away from the trap of negative thinking to creating positive change.

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  • Instruction & Inclusion

    This article outlines effective teaching strategies designed to include all students in the same learning activities by the use of multi-level instruction and partial participation.

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  • Attitudes and their consequences

    This excerpt from the Disability Awareness Package (File No. 1507) considers the reasons behind the negative attitudes towards people with disabilities which tend to be held by people who have little personal contract with people with disabilities.

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  • Let our Children Go: an organizing manual for advocates & parents

    Let our Children Go' describes how parents can fight for the needs and rights of children and adults with disabilities. It begins by stressing the importance of working out your personal values before undertaking advocacy efforts.

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  • Disability Awareness Package

    This manual is aimed at addressing the negative stereotyping of people with disabilities and its consequences by increasing understanding about life with a disability.

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  • Pitfalls for Purchasers & Providers

    In an interesting introduction to this paper, Richard Bruggerman cautions us to remember that 'while there are few doubts that economic theory works, . . . it is only a part of the story in understanding human motivation or the workings of society'.

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  • Caring for Aboriginal People with Disabilities

    This paper is based on research in progress aimed at determining the most suitable ways of providing support services to aboriginal people with disability.

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  • The Impact of Self-advocacy on Families

    This paper draws on research coming out of a participatory research project on the impact of self-advocacy on families. It initially addresses the question of 'What is an adult?', then looks at the relationship between adulthood and self advocacy.

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  • Values into local action - for the asking

    Learning to ask and making personal introductions are powerful methods of local action. This short article reinforces the need to encourage people with disabilities to express their needs by asking others for assistance.

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