Strategies that enhance the quality of our lives are no different from those that enhance the life of a person with disabilities. Tom Pomeranz blends the very best methodology with humor and deep insight.

This debut pack of highly creative lesson plans offers activities for socializing, athletics, nature awareness, drama, visual arts, creative movement, sensory events and more. Linda's work—and yours—is not just about materials, schedules and checklists. It's about relationships. It's about passion.

Crisis intervention should be a last resort. Nathan Ory lays out in clear descriptions and real life examples how to anticipate and prevent escalating episodes. Learn to pinpoint behaviors and their roots.

What should a human rights committee (HRC) review? Should issues before the HRC be presented anonymously? Why shouldn't an agency save time, money and effort by combining the HRC with the behavior management committee? Human Rights Committees tackles these and other essential issues.

Learn a proven method of risk assessment that uncovers and examines critical data about both the people you support and paid staff. Learn more...

This innovative training tool guides a group of employees and clients as they recruit and hire new employees. Activities include learning to work as a group; designing want ads and information packets about the agency; understanding prejudice and equal opportunity employment; informing  candidates that they've been chosen; and more. Learn more...

Although the desire to love and be loved is innate, the ability to engage in healthy sexual relationships is not. Doing What Comes Naturally? is not just about intercourse and genitalia. It is about engaging in relationships; it is about self-esteem. Orieda Horn Anderson addresses topics such as signs of sexual abuse, sexual incident reporting and counseling techniques.

Grieving is not a process to be avoided, rushed or silenced. This book tells poignant stories from the lives of real people. It offers valuable lessons about the cycle of life and the power of people with developmental disabilities to master this deep emotional challenge.

In Feel Our Freedom: Communities and Connections for People With Developmental Disabilities, photographer Jon Lowenstein captures the poignant, the amusing, the inspiring, and the everyday rhythm in the lives of more than 40 adults. Writer Alisa Hauser Kraft helps them share their stories and their feelings. This is not a "poster child" type of book; rather, it tells very real stories of how several people have beaten the odds, and how they continue to look to the future.

Individual treatment options, and the medical care delivery system in general, continue to be a complex national issue. Dr. Mitchell explains in clear, jargon-free language the history of managed care, its present implications for people with developmental disabilities, and what the future will likely bring.

How can leaders support and maintain the compassion and active involvement of those providing services alongside them? How can we achieve the best possible outcomes for persons with varying needs and abilities–persons who are pursuing individual goals? What type of learning, risk-taking, relationship-building and personal responsibility are involved? Art Dykstra answers these questions with humor and deep insight. He demonstrates a focus that never wavers from the best possible outcomes for persons who receive supports and services.

What would you do if, no matter how hard you tried, you could not learn to read? Would you continue to try or would you resign yourself to pretending, for the benefit of others, that you could read? The Pretenders tells the stories of eight people who never stopped trying. From humiliation in school and the anxiety of coping with everyday life unable to read street signs and menus, to shopping, driving, and working, they just kept trying.

This tool takes workers and managers beyond simple "do this, do that" instructions for dealing with severe, challenging behaviors. A hypothetical client, Suzie Brown, lives in a home with five other adults who also have developmental disabilities. She has no speech and is prone to self-injury. Her increasing behavior is causing distress for Suzie and everyone else, and all the usual pacifiers no longer work.