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The strategies described on this article may help any teacher, family member, or support person as they work to understand, listen to, and communicate with students with autism.
Read MoreAccording to Paula Kluth, "if we focus on struggles and overlook a student's strengths and gifts, it becomes hard to plan for and support that learner". This article suggests the use of a simple planning document titled "Strengths and Strategies".
Read MoreAccording to Kathie Snow, "when a disability label robs an individual of the right to define himself or herself, there is a case of 'identity theft'". In this article, she describes how easily we label people with disability, many times unintentionally, and how detrimental this is.
Read MoreMichael Kendrick explains in this presentation the strategies he supports with regards to housing and support of people referred to as "behaviourally challenging", and also what strategies he does not support and why.
Read MoreIn recent decades "person centered service" has been heralded by many people as constituting a kind of high order paradigm shift.
Read MoreIn this article, Michael Kendrick describes an innovative flexible family support service which is particularly responsive to the needs of people from non-English speaking background.
Read MoreConsiderable interest exists in the strategy of supporting grass roots family governed family support projects that has occurred within the state of Massachusetts. This strategy was developed extensively during the 1990s and continues in the present.
Read MoreChoosing the right pathway begins with the recognition that there needs to be a fundamentally respectful and ethical relationship between services and the people they assist, i. e. "right relationship".
Read MoreRecognising that services themselves struggle with Technocratic Managerialism, Michael Kendrick offers some broad strategies to organisations and workers who can become effective buffers against impersonal bureaucratic processes that intrude into the lives of the people they support.
Read MoreWe are at a point in our history where there is considerable interest in whether it is possible to do a better job of responding to people as individuals.
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