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Belonging Is Built One Choice at a Time

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees A few weeks ago, while hiking in a forest heading up to a small hot springs with some friends, I stood in a forest that had once been consumed by fire. Blackened trunks still marked the landscape, reminders of what had been lost. Yet beneath them, young trees stretched

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Developmental Disability Awareness Month: A little history.

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Presidents and Parents and Advocates Leading the Way In the early 1960’s President, Kennedy used the power of the Presidency to bring attention to the needs of people experiencing life with an intellectual and developmental disability (IDD).  Back in the 1960’s, individuals with IDD were labeled as “mentally retarded.”  Up until that time, people with

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