Tag: community living
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Direct Support Meets LGBTQ+ Folks With Disabilities
A week ago I snuck into the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals Webinar on supporting people with intellectual disability who are lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, or something else under the label of LGBTQ+. It felt like sneaking because I don’t work with folks with intellectual or developmental disability, directly or otherwise, but, actually,…
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Film Friday: One Step Out Of Loneliness
Then my behaviour therapist called, I asked him how to get a girl friend, he said he’d draw up a plan with a step by step process. … Did you know that there are 176 steps that you need to climb in order to get out of loneliness. That’s a lot. Loneliness can feel like…
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Love doesn’t always win for people with disabilities.
June 26 was a history-changing day. Marriage laws in the U.S. finally caught up with reality – many people’s reality, anyway. This ruling opens up a whole new world of fredoms. It solves some of the problems that transgender people wishing to marry have faced up until now and gives same-gender couples the option to…