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Promoting Independence in Connecticut: Supported Decision-Making as an Alternative to Guardianship and Conservatorship

Download: Promoting Independence in Connecticut: Supported Decision-Making as an Alternative to Guardianship and Conservatorship PURPOSE OF THIS MANUAL This manual is written for individuals who need support and those who support them. You will read how Supported Decision-Making in Connecticut can be used in place of more restrictive means, such as guardianship and conservatorship, to …

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Tennessee Center for Decision-Making Support

The Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Council, the Arc of Tennessee, and Disability Rights Tennessee have partnered to create the Tennessee Center for Decision-Making Support. This site includes information and tools for people with developmental disabilities and their families, including free legal forms to create formal support agreements. Visit the site here or visit https://www.tndecisionmaking.org/.

About the Partnership to Ensure Reform of Supports in Other Nations (PERSON) Project

Partnership to Ensure Reform of Supports in Other Nations (PERSON) Project States the objectives of the PERSON projecting, including enhancing the participation of civil society in legislative and policy reform on legal capacity to ensure domestic implementation of the UN CRPD, and bringing together like-minded civil society organizations in Balkan states to support people with …

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Academic Identity Development Through Self-Determination: Successful College Students with Learning Disabilities

Article describes a study that seeks to provide a model of academic identity for college students with learning disabilities. The study floats the “integrative self-determination” themes of persistence, competence, career decision making, and self-realization. Author(s): Tina M. Anctil, Michele E. Ishikawa, Amy Tao Scott Publication Date: December 2008 Publisher: Career Developoment for Exceptional Individuals Source: …

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Adult Outcomes for Students with Cognitive Disabilities Three-Years After High School: The Impact of Self-Determination

Adult Outcomes for Students with Cognitive Disabilities Three-Years After High School: The Impact of Self-Determination (PDF) “Reports a follow-up study of school leavers with [intellectual and developmental disabilities] who were surveyed 1- and 3-years after they left school to determine what they were doing in major life areas.” Determines that self-determination has yielded positive effects. …

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Adult Ward Should Have Right to Vote

Adult ward should have right to vote: court Tokyo District Court ruled unconstitutional the provision in the Public Offices Election Law that strips the right to vote from adults helped by guardians. The trial focused on whether the rights to vote and to run for office can be regulated based on intellectual disabilities, and whether it is reasonable …

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Alternatives to Guardianship

Alternatives to Guardianship A parallel can be drawn between guardianship and intestacy (distribution of property after death without a will): both result from failure to plan, and both involve massive intervention in individual affairs. But with guardianship, more than property is at stake: the fabric of later life, its potential creativity, and personal autonomy at …

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