I think the other issue skirted in this article is the lack of quality supports in the community that result in people being successful in creating better lives.
Even with all that we know, there are still places (like here in Georgia) where the availability of good providers and supports give ammunition to the arguments made by people like those who wrote this article.
Eric E. Jacobson
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Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities
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From: xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com]
On Behalf Of Tewell - CDHS, Marcia
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:01 PM
To: xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: DD Councils NYT Op Ed
There were some great comments to counter the dinosaur-like views in the article, but even the comments were not all supportive of community living. They did, however, provide a bit of optimism after reading the article. Amazing
this deficit thinking still occurs without an equal amount of thinking of alternatives, fully knowing that the ' isolation solution' which was an utter failure.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Lawyer, Heidi (VBPD) <xxxxxx@vbpd.virginia.gov> wrote:
In case you haven’t seen this awful op ed
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/opinion/the-modern-asylum.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Heidi Lawyer
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Virginia Board for People with Disabilities (VBPD)
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