A short film about the self-advocacy civil rights movement, starring people with intellectual disabilities. Part of a series that includes ODSP & ME, also available on YouTube.
This was a very productive day for both parents and their teen and adult children with intellectual disabilities. Many of the goals established today were reached!
How LiveWorkPlay is helping adults with intellectual disabilities and their parents to take the step to a life in the community through the On Our Own Together Too housing initiative.
This is one of several early videos created by LiveWorkPlay written and performed by people with intellectual disabilities. This one is about the challenge of progressing beyond the family home.
This was one of the first times people with intellectual disabilities at LiveWorkPlay talked publicly about self-advocacy. The occasion was the United Nations International Day of Disabled Persons 2005. A great early effort!
This story was captured with a small digital camera and was not rehearsed or planned. It features a person with an intellectual disability at LiveWorkPlay who did what so many non-disabled people take for granted: staying home alone!
LiveWorkPlay presentation to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Standing Committee on Social Policy with regard to Bill 77 and act to replace the Developmental Services Act of 1974, oral presentation by Jennifer Harris (self-advocate).
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Retirement planning: Nest egg or goose egg? - Minneapolis Star Tribune Since 1987, the S&P has averaged over 10%. The average equity investor in the S&P 500 has averaged 4.5%. What gives? During times like … read more these, people panic and move out after a downturn. When the markets start turning around, they get ...
Retirement planning seminars set in Easton - Star-Democrat EASTON Eglseder Retirement Specialists Inc. will offer free breakfast retirement briefings this week. Seminars are planned from 8:30 to 11 a.m Tuesday, Oct. 14, and Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Waterview Grille at the Easton Club. You must be a site ...
3 Retirement Myths - US News and World Report The conventional wisdom about retirement may be worth re-examining, say two financial-planning mavericks. In their recently published Spend 'til the End: the Revolutionary Guide to Raising Your Living Standard (Today and When You Retire) , Laurence ...
