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  • Personal Relationships between People with and Without Disabilities

    In this article, Zana Lutfiyya asserts that while it takes effort to establish connections between people with and without disabilities, there are ways that such relationships can be encouraged.

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  • Research, Advocacy, and the Making of Public Policy

    This article outlines the involvement of the University of Washington Center for Disability Policy & Research (CDPR) in developing effective public policy around people with developmental disability and their families. The authors encourage researchers, policy makers and consumers to work together to influence public policy.

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  • Healthy Sexuality: Attitudes, Systems & Policies

    People with disability are often not given the opportunity to express their sexuality. Sexuality, however, is part of what it is to be human. To deny sexuality often results in repression or inappropriate behaviour.

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  • Matching a Thinking System to a Student

    Sue Rubin explains how, lacking a way of communication as a child, she was assumed to have intellectual disability. All this changed when Rubin, who has autism, was introduced to facilitated communication.

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  • Let's look outside the Service System to give People a Real Choice

    People with disability are often offered service solutions which do not meet their needs - leading to the offers being rejected. In this thought-provoking article, David Hanman challenges service providers to find out what people actually want.

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  • How parents can use their experience to change problem behaviour

    Siobhan O'Rourke describes a way that parents can use their own skills and knowledge of their child to overcome problem behaviour. Gentle teaching provides a positive framework to help parent and child work together to develop more harmonious relationships. Keyword: Families

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  • a good life

    In writing "a good life" Al Etmanski draws on his experience both as a founder of PLAN (Planned Advocacy Lifetime Network) and a parent of a person with a disability. Etmanski identifies the elements that make up a good life.

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  • Working with Hannah

    Working with Hannah' is a detailed snapshot of the first years of school for Hannah, who has Down Syndrome as well as mobility and communication problems.

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  • Delicate Threads

    Delicate Threads offers a rare look at friendships between children with and without special needs. The author explores how the relationships develop, how they compare to friendships between typical peers, and what happens to them over time.

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  • Making the Best of a Hospital Experience

    Based on NSW research presented at a seminar which formed part of the ACPA Conference 2000, this report identifies the failure of hospital staff to adequately meet the needs of adult patients with cerebral palsy.

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