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Yearly Archives: 2014

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Parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD)

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminDecember 4, 2014
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by Alison Lozano I am clearing out my office in preparation to retire at the end of January. During that process I have discovered many pieces of paper that

What Are We Waiting for? Waiting Lists and Community Infrastructure

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminOctober 27, 2014
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by Norman Reim What Are We Waiting For? Waiting Lists and Community Infrastructure There are still waiting lists for residential supports for people with developmental disabilities. We say we

Case Management and the Loss of a ‘Personal Touch’

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminSeptember 5, 2014
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by Alison Lozano I am an “old world” social worker and possibly that is why I have some real concerns about how the practice of social work has lost

Family Support: Struggling for a New Identity

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminAugust 14, 2014
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by Norman Reim Family Support is Struggling for a New Identity The New Jersey State Regional Family Support Planning Councils were a force in the DD system during the

Special Education: Bogged Down Like the Rest of It

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminJuly 24, 2014
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Special Education is in need of an overhaul. There’s a ton of money involved and, more importantly, the quality of the education of students with and without disabilities is

Employment of Individuals with Disabilities

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminJuly 11, 2014
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I recently attended a one-day conference on employment of persons with disabilities. What made this conference different were the participants. The audience was made up equally of individuals in

Whose System is it Anyway

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminMay 31, 2014
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A few posts back I talked about some aspects of the Big Business of Disability. I want to talk some more about that. Before it had been the over

Like Math Class: UCP Report on State of the States

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminApril 30, 2014
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Today we’re going to math class. I know. I hear the collective groan. But United Cerebral Palsy recently released a report on how states are doing in terms of

Common Core – A Mistake Revisited

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminApril 16, 2014
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There have been many attempts to standardize education since schooling for all children became mandatory in most Western countries.  I have documented the experience I had as a child

Let’s Take a Look at People First

Disability in Focus BlogBy adminMarch 28, 2014
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I hear New Jersey is looking into augmenting its self-advocacy movement with some of the ideas and inspirations from the People First groups that have had success in other
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