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
If you have not done so before or recently, I recommend accessing Robert Perske’s website. It contains many of his published and unpublished writings. Perske writes compellingly of the vulnerability of impaired people. His chapter… Read More »Robert Perske
This is the first of what I hope will be a regular column dedicated to “SRV in the News”. At SRV workshops we often give examples from the media; some of these are current, while… Read More »SRV in the News
Thanks to Guy Caruso, Western Coordinator at the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University and long-term member of the North American SRV Training, Development and Safeguarding Council, for sending me the link to this 90 minute video… Read More »video of Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger teaching on the dilemma of providing human service for pay
The following is a guest blog post submitted by Steven Tiffany: Last week I stumbled across a blog posting reviewing a new documentary that takes an in depth look at the relationship between disability and… Read More »Guest post: Disability and transhumanism
A 22 May 2011 NY Times op-ed piece entitled “Our irrational fear of forgetting” raised questions around societal attitudes toward Alzheimer’s or more specifically, people who appear to have Alzheimer’s. A few highlights I picked… Read More »NY Times article: Our irrational fear of forgetting