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 […]
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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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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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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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: 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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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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Person-centered planning encompasses the idea that the individual is at the heart of all decisions about services, supports, and care. This report analyzes how well states are implementing a 2014 rule that creates the right to person-centered care planning for Medicaid consumers of Long-Term Services and Supports. The report is a tool for health care
This paper discusses ways people with disabilities may take more control over their finances and lives by opening and managing an ABLE Account. In so doing, they may also develop the skills and receive the supports they need to achieve the independence, community participation, and quality of life promised by the ADA. ABLE Accounts and
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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