tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post7533588229526161726..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: A Waitress In TearsDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-4013063355657598972013-02-19T07:25:35.511-05:002013-02-19T07:25:35.511-05:00I see it and hear this all the time in my life now...I see it and hear this all the time in my life now. I left a fairly high paying and respectable position in a "smaller/more improved modern institutional setting" so I could be on the other side of of the aisle of inclusion. True inclusion can only occur when congregate care settings eliminated or radically altered to fit the desires and needs of those in them, I suppose.... "You may say I am a dreamer....I am not the only one" ...Hope this waitress got a big tip!!John R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09855575688523179265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-25407604377818313022013-02-19T07:17:12.365-05:002013-02-19T07:17:12.365-05:00I think that's exactly what she was feeling. W...I think that's exactly what she was feeling. We're moving people out of institutions in Illinois. We have completed one and are on the second. I'm not sure what comes after those. We work really hard to prepare our kids for life in the "real world" - we sure hope they will have a shot to live in it - Tamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624151975591059655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-57489632302416277432013-02-19T06:32:45.795-05:002013-02-19T06:32:45.795-05:00There are still millions of people around the worl...There are still millions of people around the world who are institutionalized--the organization, Disability Rights International, documents the abuses that are too common inside them and has a global campaign to end all institutionalization of children with disabilities--check them out at <a href="http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org/</a> Their videos and reports are heart breaking.<br /><br />We have managed to free millions, and this is undeniably great. Millions left are waiting for us to finish the job.Andrea S.http://gdrl.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-61956503227117794002013-02-19T00:18:20.203-05:002013-02-19T00:18:20.203-05:00We were talking in our self advocacy group about t...We were talking in our self advocacy group about the cost of the still open state institutions and the 30-something president of the group asked what they were! I felt happy that he didn't know. Think of a future without those places. CA still has 1500 people institutionalized.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com