a cartoonist’s take on devaluation!
http://wronghands1.com/2015/06/12/designating-drivers/
devaluation
Guardian article: ‘Secrecy surrounds Texas prisoner transfers in wake of rioting’
This 2015 newspaper article is relevant to the process of societal devaluation and resultant wounding taught in leadership level Social Role Valorization workshops. The key focus of the title and article has to do with… Read More »Guardian article: ‘Secrecy surrounds Texas prisoner transfers in wake of rioting’
just arrived: vol 2 no 1 of the Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability
I have mentioned Dr. Jeff McNair of CalBaptist University in past posts (here and here). Jeff is the senior editor of the Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability (check this post about an article that… Read More »just arrived: vol 2 no 1 of the Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability
SRV In the News: Disabled inmates denied crucial access, judge says
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle, details the trouble that inmates of county jails in California have had in gaining access to basic aids for their physical impairments. According to the district judge interviewed… Read More »SRV In the News: Disabled inmates denied crucial access, judge says
SRV in the News: Heightened Vulnerability and Economic Hard-Ship
Following my last post, on the theme of the heightened vulnerability of elderly persons, I return to the concept of heightened vulnerability as it is also a very real concern for intellectually disabled people, especially… Read More »SRV in the News: Heightened Vulnerability and Economic Hard-Ship
Youth prison
In the PASSING manual, Dr. Wolfensberger and Susan Thomas write that one of the few human service practices that does not have a culturally valued analog (CVA) is a prison (p. 31). A recent article… Read More »Youth prison