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Videos

Ease into Fitness: Beginner Workout for People with Developmental Disabilities shows parents and staff how to encourage adults with developmental disabilities to begin and maintain an exercise program. Three fitness trainers combine coaching with music and fun and take a group of developmentally delayed people through a 35 minute workout session. V-HLT39

Fair Chance: Parents with Developmental Disabilities takes the viewer inside the homes of six parents who have various types of developmental disabilities. They join in a frank discussion about the prejudices they face, effective support services, and the lack of standardized services for them. V-PAR69

Language and Terminology discusses why people and organizations use or object to certain terminology. Commonly used terms that are used in the field today are discussed as well as terms that were once acceptable but are no longer used. V-STA153

More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities is an overview of person-centered planning and shows the life planning of three individuals with significant disabilities. Accompanying manual explains options and gives examples of the planning processes. A pocket guide for families is included to learn what to expect from their planning meeting. V-STA158

My Life, My Dream covers the elements of person centered planning and introduces two individuals who communicate a desire for change. Tells how the planning process was used to make changes happen in their lives. Guidebook provides examples, ground rules, action plans and suggestions to make the process work. V-VOC132

On the Spectrum: Children and Autism is designed to help physicians and other professionals recognize the early warning signs of autism spectrum disorder and understand the impact of early and appropriate intervention. Provides guidelines for conducting a developmental screening, outlines the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders and describes how to relay developmental concerns to parents. V-AUT100

Safe Driving reviews basic safe driving techniques that may have been forgotten over time due to greater dependency on habit and less attention to the actual skills and techniques behind safe driving. V-SAF46

Supporting Self-Determination: Strategies for Direct Support Staff provides direct support staff with positive strategies for supporting self-determination for people with developmental disabilities. V-ADV99

Understanding Behavior: Building Positive Supports discusses the meaning of behavior and the factors that can influence it. Will help staff learn new skills and behaviors when interacting with others. V-STA154

The New What Do You Do When You See A Blind Person? will help the viewer to know when and how to lend a helping hand and how to interact comfortably with someone who is visually impaired. V-VIS31

Wheelchair Getaways: Accessible Van Rental (Sales, Service, Lease) demonstrates the features of the Braun van. V-REC16

Winning Attitude demonstrates how a human service manager prevents an overwhelmed case manager from delivering bad customer service. Shows manager and supervisor techniques and strategies that will help motivate employees and solve some of the most common problems they face. V-STA155

CD-ROMs

“Possibility Build,” a project between Courage Center and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity in Minneapolis, resulted in building the first accessible Habitat home using assistive technology. The library has a virtual tour of this home which features more than 50 assistive technology accommodations from simple devices to a high-tech lift system that gave the homeowners, a couple with cerebral palsy, more independence in their daily living. The CD-ROM explains the features, the benefits, gives builder’s tips as well as manufacture and contact information. You may request a free copy of the CD-ROM at from virtualtour@courage.org or borrow it from the TRIC/PLUK library.

Books

Building a World Fit for People: Designers with Disabilities at Work discusses the potential for young people with disabilities to have a career in design-related work and profiles 21 designers with disabilities from around the world. ACC71

Family Handbook on Future Planning is a guide to help families develop a future plan for their child with cognitive, intellectual or developmental disabilities that will provide personal, financial and legal protections for the child after the parents die or can no longer provide care or support. Can be downloaded off the Internet at http://www.thearc.org/index or borrowed from the library. TRA167

Forgotten Generation: The Status and Challenges of Adults with Mild Cognitive Limitations explores what it is like for adults with mild cognitive limitations to manage in adulthood with few or no specialized supports. AGE84

Helping Adults with Mental Retardation Grieve a Death Loss provides information on typical grieving, presents some features unique to adults with mental retardation who are grieving, and gives concrete ideas that can be used to assist adults as they move through the grief process. DEA63

Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum: Supervisory Trainer’s Curriculum is a training curriculum for training supervisors of direct support personnel in the values and practices of positive behavior support. This is for supervisors working in any setting providing supports and services for people with developmental and related disabilities. It consists of 26 training modules which focus heavily on teaching performance skills related to positive behavior supports. STA159

Reach for the Dream: Developing Individual Service Plans for Persons with Disabilities, 2nd Edition discusses integrating individual written plans such as ieps or ISPs with the futures planning processes. TRA168

Reflections for a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew contains forty essays written by successful adult role models who share what it is like to grow up with a disability and what they wished their parents had read or been told while they were growing up. FAM236

Strategies for Anger Management: Reproducible Worksheets for Teens and Adults contains reproducible worksheets to be used by educators, social service professionals, and others working to help people cope with anger in healthier ways. It is divided into three sections: understanding anger, interventions for anger management, and conflict resolution. SKI150

Working on the Dream: A Guide to Career Planning and Job Success provides a practical, step-by-step procedure for identifying job preferences, marketable talents, employment barriers, and mapping action plans to achieve desired job results. VOC505

Web Resources

Quality Mall a place where you can find lots of free information about person-centered supports for people with developmental disabilities. http://www.qualitymall.org

Institute for Community Inclusion has a guide for person centered planning for employment staff titled “Starting with Me: A Guide to Person-Centered Planning for Job Seekers.” Another publication available at this site is “Evaluating Your Agency and Its Services: A Checklist for People with Disabilities.“ http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/pub

“How to Build Wheelchair Ramps for Homes” a manual of design and construction for modular wheelchair ramps is available at http://www.wheelchairramp.org.

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities has current fact sheets about health conditions at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/factshetts.htm

Adaptive Environments launched a project called Building Careers in Design to provide vocational rehabilitation counselors with knowledge and skills needed to meet the educational and employment requirements of people with disabilities who want to attain quality careers in design and to introduce people with disabilities to the design professions. For more information go to http://www.careersindesign.org.

The Fire Safety Directory contains links to materials that help to inform and teach about residential fire safety and prevention. Information is targeted towards a variety of audiences including the At-Risk Populations such as older adults, mobility-impaired persons, deaf or hard of hearing persons, blind or visually-impaired persons, etc. http://www.firesafety.gov

disABILITY Information and Resources is a very comprehensive list of information and resources. Adapted Special Needs Clothing, Free or Discounted Prescription Medication, Wheelchair and Mobility Products, Alternative Health/Medicine/Therapies, Resources for Caregivers, Independent Living are just a few of the many, many categories listed. http://www.makoa.org