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Hugs all Around! How Nicholas McCullough Came Home

This is a short story about community. It comes from one of the most isolated places in Canada - a small fishing village in the province of Nova Scotia.
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Breaking Barriers: Educating People about Disability

The authors write, "Our aim in this book is to show how community education can become a reality and although it may take many forms, the goal remains the same: the full participation of disabled people in community life.
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Mandate for Quality: Volume III, Changing the System: An analysis of New Brunswick's approach

This is the last publication in a series intended to assist Canadians in the development of services and supports for people with intellectual disabilities in the move from institutions to more community based lifestyles (see also File no's 3060 and 3061).
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Mandate for Quality: Volume II, Missing the Mark: An analysis of the Ontario government's Five Year Plan

This is the second publication in a series of three, that were designed to assist Canadians (but the theory and philosophy were relevant to Australia) in the development of services and support for people with intellectual disabilities in the move from institutional life to one that was more community based.
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Mandate for Quality: Volume I, Building on Experience: Reviewing common features of systems in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona

This is the first publication in a series of three that was designed to assist Canadians in the development of services and supports for people with intellectual disabilities in the move from institutions to more community based lifestyles (see also File No. 's 3059 and 3060).
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A benefit - cost analysis of integrated and segregated programs serving individuals with severe disabilities: a sourcebook of technical methods and procedures used in the economic analysis

This purely economic study, based in the United States aims to identify the economic cost of both integrated and segregated education programs, the post school employment productivity levels of students graduating from representative programs and the economic return on public investments made to segregated and integrated programs in terms of...
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Filthy Rich and Other Nonprofit Fantasies: Changing the way nonprofits do business in the 90s

The author writes, ". . . nonprofits have important work to do and. . . need to grab every available tool and trend; anything that enables you to get on with your work and delivery your mission. . .
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Rose meets Mr Wintergarten

A lovely children's story about the barriers that are broken down when people are willing to take a chance, when people can see beyond stereotypes and truly human relationships are forged. This story says it all!!! Keywords: Attitude, Inclusion
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Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

This children's book which tells the story of a friendship between a young boy and an elderly woman (who has 4 names like himself) who lives in a nursing home.
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The Extra Costs of participation in Work, Education or Training for People with Disabilities: An Exploratory Study. SPRC Report No. 86

This study provides a detailed examination of the extra costs incurred in participation in activities of the general community such as paid employment, further education and training, and attempts to explain their variation. The study raises a number of questions.
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