The vision of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) is a world with a highly qualified and professional direct support workforce that partners with, supports, and empowers people with disabilities to lead a life of their choosing. NADSP works to elevate the status of direct support professionals by improving practice standards, promoting system reform, and advancing their knowledge, skills and values, through certification, credentialing, training, professional development, and accreditation services.
As a caregiver, you may have heard of your family member’s emotional or sensory discomfort as dysregulation. It is not often talked about how every person can become dysregulated. It is important to know that having emotional or sensory regulation is not being calm, cool, or at ease all of the time.
Compassion fatigue is a form of burnout that comes from caring for the needs of family members, loved ones, and pets. Feelings such as empathy and warmheartedness are emotional parts of human nature. The act of caring for other people is often balanced with a deep understanding for another person’s stress, illness, or pain.
There are a few really easy ways to help Griffin’s Place raise extra funds so we can continue to host really great events and work towards our goal of having a physical space for the community to use as a resource.
Discrimination does not always mean that a person is intentionally being cruel or dismissive, they simply may feel nervous or scared about doing the “correct” thing, based on their assumptions, and doing things that can leave a person with a disability feeling ignored or worse.
Although huge changes in policy have happened in the last 25 years, there is still a disconnect between what is legally required to support and accommodate people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and what communities actually provide.
Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.
When designing and/or determining an appropriate Augmentative/Alternative Communication System or identifying symbols to use in visual support Level of Representation must be identified to allow an individual to successfully obtain and provide information at a successful symbolic level.
The first thing you will want to do, prior to teaching symbols for a communication or visual system, is to identify what Level of Representation an individual can most successful use.
A Daily Schedule Board displays an array of symbols in a specific order. It allows an individual to see the day’s activities in sequence rather than to experience them as a random, unpredictable, unrelated series of events.
The vision of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) is a world with a highly qualified and professional direct support workforce that partners with, supports, and empowers people with disabilities to lead a life of their choosing. NADSP works to elevate the status of direct support professionals by improving practice standards, promoting system reform, and advancing their knowledge, skills and values, through certification, credentialing, training, professional development, and accreditation services.
"As an individual providing services to adults with developmental disabilities, you are a Mandatory Reporter according to Oregon law (ORS 430.765)."
As a caregiver, you may have heard of your family member’s emotional or sensory discomfort as dysregulation. It is not often talked about how every person can become dysregulated. It is important to know that having emotional or sensory regulation is not being calm, cool, or at ease all of the time.
Compassion fatigue is a form of burnout that comes from caring for the needs of family members, loved ones, and pets. Feelings such as empathy and warmheartedness are emotional parts of human nature. The act of caring for other people is often balanced with a deep understanding for another person’s stress, illness, or pain.
Click here to learn more about what Burnout means for you- and how to manage it!
December 14th from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Join us at the Hillsboro Hidden Creek Community Center for an evening of fun with friends as we decorate holiday cookie cookies and crafts.
December 20th from 3:30pm-5pm
Join us at the St. Helens Recreation Center for a fun-filled Holiday Sweater Party with crafts, cocoa, santa, games, and more!
Here are 6 GREAT reasons why you should take a dance class!
There are a few really easy ways to help Griffin’s Place raise extra funds so we can continue to host really great events and work towards our goal of having a physical space for the community to use as a resource.
Discrimination does not always mean that a person is intentionally being cruel or dismissive, they simply may feel nervous or scared about doing the “correct” thing, based on their assumptions, and doing things that can leave a person with a disability feeling ignored or worse.
Although huge changes in policy have happened in the last 25 years, there is still a disconnect between what is legally required to support and accommodate people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and what communities actually provide.
Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.
When designing and/or determining an appropriate Augmentative/Alternative Communication System or identifying symbols to use in visual support Level of Representation must be identified to allow an individual to successfully obtain and provide information at a successful symbolic level.
The first thing you will want to do, prior to teaching symbols for a communication or visual system, is to identify what Level of Representation an individual can most successful use.
A Daily Schedule Board displays an array of symbols in a specific order. It allows an individual to see the day’s activities in sequence rather than to experience them as a random, unpredictable, unrelated series of events.