MAY 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)

IEP Goal Banks and Writing SMART Goals

IEP goals are developed from what is described as the student’s baselines in the present levels section. Goals should be personalized and should reflect how the child is behind his/her age and same-grade peers. This resource, A Day In Our Shoes, is phenomenal, and can provide you with information on SMART Goals and GOAL Banks for many specific areas.

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