The Parents with Disabilities Toolkit provides a summary of disability laws that protect families’ rights. Inside of the toolkit, you will find …

The Parents with Disabilities Toolkit provides a summary of disability laws that protect families’ rights. Inside of the toolkit, you will find …

Partners for Better Policies- A Manual for Mainstreaming.pdf The purpose of the manual is to provide materials that are relevant to people …

Paving the Way to Full Realization of the CRPD’s Rights to Legal Capacity and Supported Decision-Making: A Canadian Perspective This article focuses …

When you become a parent, the world is full of new adventures. When your child experiences a disability, those adventures multiply. Relationships …

Person Centered Planning Process

Person Centered Planning: A Tool for Transition The expression, “It takes a village to raise a child,” is never more true than …

Person-centered planning is a unique, individually-focused approach to planning for persons who are in need of services and supports. It is an …

Person-centered care is widely acclaimed both as a means and a goal to improve care and outcomes for people of all ages …

Includes General Information on Person-centered Planning and Sample Person-centered Plans. When you become a parent, the world is full of new adventures. …

Person-Centered Planning in Guardianship A Little Hope for the Future Examines the potential for person-centered planning within the American system of guardianship. …

Person-Centered Planning: A Tool for Transition (PDF) Describes how a team, focused on the needs of an individual person with disabilities, can …

Position Paper Key Elements of a System for Supported Decision-Making (PDF) Position Paper to be adopted at the UN General Assembly 2008, …

Position Paper Legal Capacity (PDF) The position of this paper is that every person with an intellectual disability is entitled to have …

Special education transition planning.pdf ʺProvides important information about the transition services that must be a part of IEPs for all students with …

People are telling us how they are supported and how it makes them feel, Supporters are telling us how less restrictive options …

Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 More information and Registration:  2017 Family Leadership Conference Information and Registration Webinar Materials:  SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING: From Theory …

Date: Sunday, November 5, 2017 More information and Registration:  2017 Consumer Voice Annual Conference Information and Registration Webinar Materials:  SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING: Update …

Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Webinar Materials: SUPPORTED DECISIONMAKING: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Presenters: Morgan K. Whitlatch Hosted by: DC Office of …

Principles of Medical Ethics in Health Care Provision for People with DD : A Case-Based Approach Presentation Author(s): Michael Henderson MD

Promoting Access to the General Curriculum by Teaching Self-Determination Skills (PDF) Argues for self-determination for students with disabilities, and that “promoting self-determination …

Promoting Causal Agency: The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (PDF) Introduces the “Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction, incorporating principles of self-determination, which …

Promoting Judicial Acceptance and Use of Limited Guardianships (PDF) Explains that educating judges about the virtues of a limited guardianship is integral …

Promoting Self-Determination: A Model for Training Elementary Students to Self-Advocate for IEP Accommodations (PDF) This article serves as a comprehensive model of …

Promoting Transition Goals and Self-Determination Through Student Self-Directed Learning (PDF) “Describes the field-test results of the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction, a …