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  • Advocacy - Tools and Tips

    This Advocacy booklet provides tools and tips to assist in preparing for life transitions around a person with disability; querying policy positions; engaging with community organisations, government organization, services – even with family and friends – can all require advocacy.

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  • Celebrating Achievements Anything is Possible... Telling Dave's Story

    Allison and Paul Ouellette tell the story of their son who has achieved so much in the face of adversity despite his many disabilities. Through much struggle and much opposition of opinion from professionals, the Ouellette family managed to support David to live his life.

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  • A New Vision

    When the timing of a major setback with their daughter's service provider coincided with the opportunity to take up a new option called Self Managed Community Participation, Helen knew she had to make it happen.

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  • Treat me as I am

    Helen Cox wrote this short paper explaining her disability which is acquired brain damage (ABD).

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  • The family challenge

    This brief article lists a series of principles relating to family issues, such as "Family Support - Families do not and can not do their work of nurturance as a privatised unit. They need support from the rest of society and can not 'live alone'".

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  • Choice is not an Option

    This paper, which was presented at the 1995 ASSID Conference, emphasises the importance of giving people with disabilities choices in their life, of helping them to understand what the choices are, as well as the consequences of making a particular choice.

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  • From Sheltered Workshops to Supported Employment

    In a short article the author, a former participant in a sheltered workshop. denounces sheltered workshops as 'institutions or warehouses'. He argues the benefits of true supported work inititatives.

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  • 1996 TASH Keynote Luncheon Speaker

    Justin Dart would have been a very powerful speaker to listen to. This transcript of his speech sets out clearly defined guidelines of ways people can achieve self-determination, productivity and quality of life. Dart acknowledges that US public policy doesn't meet the needs of people with a disability.

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  • Putting all kids on the map

    The authors describe the process of facilitating inclusion by a process known as MAPS (McGill Action Planning System), a collaborative process that brings the key actors in a child's life together to create an action plan to be implemented in a regular classroom setting.

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  • Letting go of the 'forever' child

    In this paper on 'A Fresh Perspective on Inclusive Living' presented to NCID's 1993 Conference, Hailstone describes her experiences of raising a child with a disability.

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