Community Living and Inclusion for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• By: Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD Krystina Cassidy, MS Ed Kimberly Duhanyan, MEd, BCBA, LABA Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D Melmark
• March 26th, 2021
• activities, community living, inclusion, independence, integration, quality of life, self-determination, Spring 2021 Issue
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It was not long ago that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities were cared for in settings quite separate and isolated and were deprived of full integration into their communities. Thankfully, in recent decades, the entitlement to community living and learning opportunities...

How to Build a Satisfying Recreation Program for Adults with Disabilities

• By: Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, Inc.
• October 1st, 2019
• activities, exercise, Fall 2019 Issue, leisure, recreation, socialization
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Andrew Auerbach, 63, has been going on weekend recreation trips with Chapel Haven Schleifer Center in New Haven, CT, since he arrived at the recreation program for adults with disabilities in 1977. Andy, who grew up on the Upper West Side of NYC, holds two part-time jobs during the week, so the...