Supporting People with Severe Reputations in the Community
To build a system that effectively supports people with the co-occurring conditions of I/DD and mental illness, it is necessary to go beyond treatment strategies and attend to the total environment including relationships, activity and routines, communication, personal autonomy and empowerment, and program models.
Supporting People with Severe Reputations in the Community
Published in 1992, this handbook presents tools assist in developing and improving the capacity of community programs to support people
A Practical Approach to Thinking About People We Find Challenging to Support
Research on the brain in recent years has made a great impact on our understanding of “mental retardation” and of
Learning from a Person’s Biography: An Introduction to the Biographical Timeline Process
The biographical timeline process, sometimes called “biography,” “timeline,” or “life line,” is a facilitated process through which a team of