Gabe and his parents talk about and demonstrate the importance of honoring choice. As a mentor, how will you assist providers to understand that all people, regardless of the severity of their disability, have choices?
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Communicating
Self-Determination: Freedom, Authority, Support and Responsibility The National Resource Center on
Supported Living and Choice in Syracuse, NY developed
this short fact sheet defining what Self-Determination is and
what it is not. As well, the fact sheet gives four principles
and two values supported by Self-Determination.
Fact
Sheet on Self-Determination Speaking For Ourselves provides this simple
explanation of the what they see as four principles of Self-Determination.
Principles
of Self-Determination John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien
provide in this case study an important picture of the
challenges and joys of understanding the limits of
Self-Determination. "The reason to reform services in line
with the principles of self-determination is to increase the
control people with developmental disabilities have over the
conduct of their own lives, to remove the power that service
systems have to dictate such fundamental matters as where and
with whom they live and who assists them, and consequently to
decrease the opportunity that service workers have to rule over
those they assist by imposing their opinions and inclinations as
a rule of conduct." This study of Sheri, and her parents,
Marge and Earl, demonstrates the real life application of
Self-Determination in the life of a woman with significant
disabilities.
Self-Determination:
From New Initiative to Business as Usual
Pages 1- 7 May 2001 Common Sense Newsletter Ann Turnball and Rud Turnball
outline the key issues in practically enacting the principles
of Self-Determination through their own experiences with their
son, JT. The authors are optimistic about the future but note
that there is a great deal yet to be accomplished and many people
with significant cognitive disabilities that have yet to be reached
by this paradigm.
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