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Supported Decision-Making in Michigan

Supported Decision-Making is a tool people can use to make decisions with support from family, friends and other allies. It starts with acknowledging that people with I/DD have the right to make their own decisions. Supported Decision-Making allows people with I/DD to receive the support they need and want to understand the situations and choices …

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Supported Decision Making Webinar Series – Parent to Parent

Parent to Parent USA invites you to join us along with our partners at the Burton Blatt Institute for a four part webinar series on Supported Decision making presented by Jonathan Martinis. Archives Webinar Part 1: Introduction to Supported Decision Making Webinar Part 2: Supported Decision Making in Special Education Webinar Part 3: Supported Decision Making …

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Missouri Guardianship: Understanding Your Options & Alternatives

This Resource Guide was originally developed to support the MO Guardianship: Understanding Your Options & Alternatives training program. It is intended to help guide you through the process of determining what the most appropriate and least restrictive options and alternatives are to plenary or full guardianship for your unique circumstance. It addresses common concerns, misperceptions, …

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Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children

NCD undertook this groundbreaking study to advance understanding and promote the rights of parents with disabilities and their children. This report provides a comprehensive review of the barriers and facilitators people with diverse disabilities—including intellectual and developmental disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities, and physical disabilities—experience when they are exercising their fundamental right to create and …

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Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities

This paper provides a general overview of the situation of people with intellectual disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on access to education and employment, and suggests steps to address barriers to social inclusion. Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Full Report – 191 pages Access to …

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Supported Decision Making Education – Jonathan Martinis Videos

Supported Decision-Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices What does person centered planning mean when a person might have difficulty making choices? With statistics and individual cases, Jonathan Martinis challenges his audiences to re-think how they perceive risk, protection, and capacity for persons living with disabilities. Viewers will gain an understanding of how less restrictive alternatives can …

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A New Paradigm for Protecting Autonomy and the Right to Legal Capacity

This paper explores how individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities should be expected to make decisions within a liberal-democratic society, in which the state is charged with protecting citizens’ free rights to make their own decisions. A New Paradigm for Protecting Autonomy and the Right to Legal Capacity Authors: Michael Bach & Lana Kerzner Publication …

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Something to Talk About: Supported Decision Making and Access to Justice for All

This articles raises—and begins too answer—questions about how to provide the accommodations, including acceptance of SDM, that enable people with I/DD and older people with dementia, etc. to participate in court proceedings on an equal basis with others as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Author: Elizabeth Moran – American Bar Association Something …

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