A short film about the self-advocacy civil rights movement, starring people with intellectual disabilities. Part of a series that includes ODSP & ME, also available on YouTube.
This was a very productive day for both parents and their teen and adult children with intellectual disabilities. Many of the goals established today were reached!
How LiveWorkPlay is helping adults with intellectual disabilities and their parents to take the step to a life in the community through the On Our Own Together Too housing initiative.
This is one of several early videos created by LiveWorkPlay written and performed by people with intellectual disabilities. This one is about the challenge of progressing beyond the family home.
This was one of the first times people with intellectual disabilities at LiveWorkPlay talked publicly about self-advocacy. The occasion was the United Nations International Day of Disabled Persons 2005. A great early effort!
This story was captured with a small digital camera and was not rehearsed or planned. It features a person with an intellectual disability at LiveWorkPlay who did what so many non-disabled people take for granted: staying home alone!
LiveWorkPlay presentation to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Standing Committee on Social Policy with regard to Bill 77 and act to replace the Developmental Services Act of 1974, oral presentation by Jennifer Harris (self-advocate).
October 9, 2006, Dan Pihlainen from 580 CFRA visited LiveWorkPlay and put together several clips about how people with intellectual disabilities were preparing to vote in the Ontario provincial election.
A small sampling of the year that was for SMILE, JOURNEYS, and FAMILY at LiveWorkPlay. This is an abbreviated version of the show from the June 26 Engines of Success event.
The second half of the feature about the LiveWorkPlay On Our Own Together II project and the future of housing for people with intellectual disabilities.
It's time to change hearts and minds about people with intellectual disabilities. Inclusion is more than a physical location, it's an attitude. Do you need to change yours?