In the employment services context, state and local employment service systems provide services and supports that allow people with disabilities to work. Providing those services in an integrated setting enables…
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Olmstead is a Supreme Court ruling that says it is unlawful for governments to keep people with disabilities in segregated settings when they can be supported in the community. This…
An integrated setting is defined as one that “enables individuals with disabilities to interact with nondisabled persons to the fullest extent possible. Integrated settings are those that provide individuals with…
Language and the way we talk about disability issues are a powerful tool for change. The term ‘special needs’ is often thrown around without much thought. But what are ‘special…
The “fundamental nature” of Independent Living is “a philosophy of consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access, and individual and system advocacy”. Consumer control means that the individuals with…
Life is not always fair. We are constantly barraged by news of war, terror, poverty, inequality – internal and worldwide – and all the fear and anxiety that these issues…
“Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” (J.R.R. Tolkien) Life has the opportunity to take us in many different directions. We don’t have one…
The drama triangle is a social model of human interaction – the triangle maps a type of destructive interaction that can occur between people in conflict. It was conceived by Stephen Karpman, M.D. Karpman…
by Melissa Ortiz, Commissioner, Administration on Disabilities, Administration for Community Living Eighteen years ago today, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the case Olmstead v. L.C. The court…
Each entered the forest at a point he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was not path. (The Quest of the Holy Grail) The word “hero” is…