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Aging

• Aging With Developmental Disabilities: Women's Health Issues

• Aging With Developmental Disabilities: Vision Changes

• Aging With Developmental Disabilities: Hearing Changes

• Aging With Developmental Disabilities: Physical Fitness  

• Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Their Aging Caretakers 

• Developmental Disabilities and Alzheimers  

Assistive Technology 

• Assistive Technology for People with Developmental Disabilities
• How to Evaluate and Select Assistive Technology Devices 
• Computer Tips for People with Disabilities
• Learning the Web

Chapter Handbook

• People First Chapter Handbook

Criminal Justice System 

• Criminal Justice Policies Toward the Mentally Retarded Are Unjust and Waste Money 

• Guidelines for Law Enforcements Officers 

• Guidelines For Court Workers 

• Impact:  

• Know Your Rights If You Get Arrested 

• People with Mental Retardation in the Criminal Justice System 

• Retarded Offenders Lost in Courts 

• Equal Justice Eludes People With Developmental Disabilities 

Directories

• ARC Self-Advocacy Directory

Education

• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA):
  Early Intervention Services for Children Birth Through Age Two
• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Eligibility, IEPs and Placement
• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Procedural Safeguards and Due Process
• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Transition from School to Work and Community Life

Employment

• The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Working 
• Questions and Answers About Employment of People with Developmental Disabilities

Eugenics

• Index of Eugenics Articles

Events

• People First Conventions
• How to Hold a State Conference
• Organizing a Self-Advocacy Conference  

Housing

• Making a Move 

Institutions

• Massachusetts Plans New Push to Home Care for Disabled

• A Chance to be Made Whole: People First Members Being Friends to Tear Down Institution Walls

• Closure and Beyond: The Closing of Winfield State Hospital in Kansas

• Fairview: The Closing Chapter

• Escape from Tennessee's DD Centers

• Ten Top Arguments Against Closing an Institution

Language

• People First Language

Medical and Dental

• Closing The Gap: A National Blueprint to Improve the Health of Persons with Mental Retardation (AAMR Article)
• Facts About Hepatitis B and Developmental Disabilities
• HIV/AIDS and Developmental Disabilities
• Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities
• Mentally Retarded Get Inferior Medical Care 
• Mentally Retarded Get Substandard Health Care 
• Physical Fitness in People With Developmental Disabilities

see also Aging

Public Speaking

• So You Want to be a Public Speaker: A Guide For Self Advocates

Relationships

• The Importance of Friendships Between People With and Without Developmental Disabilities

• Managing Grief Better: People with Developmental Disabilities

• The Value of Trust: The Perspective of a Person with a Disability 

Self Advocacy

• The Self Advocacy Movement

• The Self Advocacy Movement: Opportunities for All

• Thoughts About Self Advocacy

• More Thoughts About Self Advocacy: The Movement, The Group and The Individual

Self Determination

• This is Freedom (AAMR Article)

• Self Determination and Self Advocacy: Shifting the Power

• Self Determination Definition

Services and Supports

• Individual Service Coordination for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

• Managed Care and Long Term Services for People with Developmental Disabilities

• Managing Grief Better: People with Developmental Disabilities

• Shaping Our Destiny: Consumer's Guide to Quality Community Services
  Shaping Our Destiny: Provider's Guide to Quality Community Services

• PCMR Series "With a Little Help from My Friends"

  • Speaking Up-Speaking Out"  

  • Growing Strong  

  • Real Lives

  • I Am Who I Am

  • Changing Systems  

Social Activities

• Hard Journey for the Developmentally Disabled

• Supporting Children and Youth with Disabilities in Integrated Recreation and Leisure Activities

Transportation

• Standing in the Cold: Mobility and the Mentally Challenged 

Voting

• Debate Surrounds Voting Right

 

 

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