Posts by Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
SMART Home Technology and more!
Here are short videos of people with disabilities explaining and showing how they use technology to live their lives. They were made by Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities.
Read MoreEasy Read Booklet About Mental Health
Mental health services do not always provide good services for people with learning disabilities or autistic people. Self-Advocates from Australia wrote The Green Light Toolkit to help services think about…
Read MoreMental Health
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are at a higher risk of experiencing mental illnesses than society as a whole. However, treatment is available for most mental illnesses. Here…
Read MoreWhat the ADA is?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? We need to understand the concepts connected to our everyday lives!
Read MoreHome and Community-Based Services ACCESS RULE Toolkit
On April 27th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) put out new draft rules. They are called Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services or the Access Rule. The goal is…
Read More