Case Management and the Loss of a ‘Personal Touch’
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 ground…
Family Support: Struggling for a New Identity
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 1990’s…
Special Education: Bogged Down Like the Rest of It
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 at…
Employment of Individuals with Disabilities
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 private…
Whose System is it Anyway
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 prescription…
Like Math Class: UCP Report on State of the States
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 some…
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Common Core – A Mistake Revisited
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 in…
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Let’s Take a Look at People First
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 states…