A practical, insightful guide for parents, teachers and caregivers who care about the prevention of the high incidence of sexual abuse of children with disabilities. Includes signs of abuse, early intervention strategies, teaching skills and guidance for parents.

This innovative training tool guides a group of employees and clients as they recruit and hire new employees. Activities include learning to work as a group; designing want ads and information packets about the agency; understanding prejudice and equal opportunity employment; informing a candidate that they've been chosen; and more. Each of the 26 activities will foster understanding and participation by the individuals who receive supports and services. Illustrations, supply lists and suggested time frames are included.

It takes equal parts of art, science and magic to change attitudes. This insightful yet lighthearted approach to training tackles major issues like the political and cultural realities of having a disability, and leading others in new directions.

This book offers practical approaches for supporting the persons you serve who have a high need for extraordinary care. Psychiatrist Ruth Ryan works directly with people who have complex needs. In this valuable guide, she describes a number of mental health conditions that can strike a person, regardless of his or her abilities. She describes how different forms of treatment, including psychotherapy, can be effective for a person with developmental disabilities.

The work of maintaining community homes and facilities can be orderly and efficient. This guide shows agencies how to accomplish tasks just as a commercial landlord would – acquiring a home, performing essential maintenance and capital renovations, and keeping the home operating smoothly. All house systems, both indoors and outdoors, are covered. Check lists are included for both short-term projects and multi-year capital replacements.

Are the persons you serve exercising "little c" choices or "big C" choices? A highly effective human rights committee (HRC) ensures the big C's. Learn the best way to start or maintain your HRC. Discover methods to:
- Ensure that the person served understands his/her rights
- Select insightful committee members
- Schedule for maximum effectiveness
- Maintain confidentiality
- Tackle the unusual and the everyday
- Keep accurate records, and more.

All people can love. And, all people – regardless of their abilities – can and should enjoy positive human contact. Dave Hingsburger shares case stories and lessons to be learned about relationships and a person with developmental disabilities.

Get a solid foundation for understanding how to increase behaviors that are prosocial and developmentally appropriate. This book offers a concise, problem-solving approach that adheres to the Least Restrictive Treatment Model.

Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Carl Tyler brings you a new pocket reference that offers reliable, up-to-date information on:
      – General issues, such as disability classification, communication challenges, functional analysis, regulations and informed consent
      – Common diagnostics
      – Essentials of health promotion and disease prevention
      – Common clinical syndromes
      – Aging issues
      – Syndrome-specific health care
      – Neuro-behavioral medicine
      – Common pharmacotherapies.
Includes an index and a timely resources section.

An essential guide to various types of developmental disability, An Introduction to Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities offers clear, concise descriptions of societal issues, clinical issues and treatments, genetic and medical causes, and pharmacological interventions. Dr. Williams also gives an overview of the current services and supports landscape and issues that are developing in the 21st Century. The four appendices cover diagnostic criteria, common genetic syndromes, federal laws that relate to mental retardation and environmental-biological causes of mental retardation.

Help the people you serve identify their strengths, discover job openings, write resumes and perform well in interviews. Ryan draws on years of experience to provide this comprehensive job search guide, which includes numerous Web resources.

Help your staff address the mental, emotional and physical impacts of their work. From the Queen of the Castle to the Cotton Candy Con Artist to Quick Draw McLaw, the characters and actions described in this manual will spark instant recognition. Dozens of practical exercises enable staff to explore their own attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that erode healthy interactions. The process is not designed to be painful, but rather self-affirming. Dr. Frank's principles are rooted in the field of positive psychology, and focus on mentoring, not managing. An excellent resource for strengthening best practices for reducing hostile interactions.

Hingsburger tells of the damage done to people with developmental disabilities because of misguided practices and assumptions. Learn from this international expert the best ways to support people in issues of sexuality, including self-protection and rights.

Discover positive, logical alternatives to the thoughtless and often destructive methods used to deal with difficult behaviors in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Includes topics such as professional fears and biases, the politics of labeling behavior, abuse, restraints, and self-injurious behaviors. Case studies provide clear examples of these methods in action.

Grieving is not a process to be avoided, rushed or silenced. Lessons in Grief and Death tells poignant stories from the lives of real people. It offers valuable lessons about the cycle of life and the power of people with developmental disabilities to master this deep emotional challenge.

Mascots can grin, dance, flip-flop and giggle their way into the hearts of sports fans, consumers and yes, even employees. The Lillie Leapit Award uses a frog mascot to recognize hard working employees at Trinity Services. Any organization that is committed to showing appreciation to its employees can create a fun form of recognition just like it. Learn how to go beyond the essential pay and bonus system and reach employees' need for fun, pride and belonging. Discover the reasons for a comprehensive recognition strategy, and how to develop, evaluate and maintain a lively program. Sample documents and illustrations are included.

This collection of Hingsburger essays offers some of his best story-telling. Funny. Real. Insightful. Give this book as a gift to your favorite employee or co-worker, and save them from burnout and compassion fatigue.

Learn how to implement a successful transition-to-home process for a person with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Topics range from managing stress to parental reactions to common frustrations to problem behaviors. A complete transition assessment tool is included to keep things on track.