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  • Beyond Group Homes

    Trudy Van Dam and Fiona Cameron-McGill outline the reasons for Hornsby Challenge's move towards more flexible support services than those offered by group homes. The emphasis is on the needs of the individual and how the service best responds to those needs.

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  • Disability and the multicultural dialogue

    This article raises some complex and pertinent questions around the term 'multiculturalism'. Despite this, it is very easy to read. The author does 3 things really well.

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  • Writing letters, making phone calls and hints on how to handle the media

    A short piece for parents or parent groups which includes: when and how to write letters, how to deal with delaying tactics and an example of a letter. There is also a piece on the best strategies to adopt when making phone calls.

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  • Some reflections on community living, reform and personal conduct

    An extensive analysis of the concept of 'community'. Kendrick argues that we should constantly think critically about our present ideas and passions concerning this concept, because "in this passion people's lives will be changed".

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  • Constructive engagement: Improving family-professional collaboration

    The authors set a framework for thinking about collaboration by taking a family perspective rather than a professional re-interpretation of it. They ask professionals to learn from the type of collaboration that goes on within and between families. Collaboration has three important features: 1.

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  • Reflections of friends

    This story traces the path of a friendship between Audrey Symons and Joan Charbonneau, both parents of a child with a disability.

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  • Testimony of Robert Holland

    The final piece on the story of the Holland family and their 5 year legal battle in Sacramento, U. S. A. , over their daughter's right to a regular education placement. This testimony by the father to the U. S.

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  • Hands-on inclusion in a tech. ed. setting

    This short article details one school's experience with inclusion in tech. ed. (in NSW such subjects as woodwork, metalwork or technical drawing).

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  • Tori gets a job

    This article describes the process whereby a family came to a decision that their son's placement in a sheltered workshop was totally inappropriate, and then what they did about it. The article includes some powerful comments by the mother: ". . . I wanted to demonstrate to professionals. .

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  • Supported employment

    This is an excellent article which clarifies what a true supported employment strategy should entail. The author is very clear about what constitutes and what does not constitute 'supported employment'.

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