AUGUST FEATURES

What Is Supported Decision-Making?

Supported decision making (SDM) is a tool that allows people with disabilities to retain their decision making capacity by choosing supporters to help them make choices. The supporters agree to help the person with a disability understand, consider, and communicate decisions, giving the person with a disability the tools to make his or her own, informed, decisions. (ACLU)

Special Education During COVID

Navigating special education services in normal times can be very difficult. Navigating special education during a pandemic is even more stressful. Do I send my child to school? Do I request OSE? What are my child’s rights under FAPE? If you have questions that require in-depth answers, this resource, A Day In Our Shoes, is phenomenal.

Where Do Human Rights Begin?

“In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. [...] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt