Disability RAPP Archive

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 9, 2024

Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning

In this issue we look at what person-centered planning is – and isn’t – and why it is important that New Hampshire reimagine what it means to support people with disabilities in living a self-determined life…

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Take Control of Your Life

Imagine your future. What do you want it to look like? How do you plan to achieve a life that is important to you? Which of your strengths can help you achieve your goals?

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Thinking Outside The Box

“If you want to have a person-centered plan, ask, and if they don’t listen ask again and insist on it and get other people to help advocate for you.”

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 9, 2024

Supporting Real Person-Centered Planning in New Hampshire

Calling something person-centered doesn’t make it so. Unfortunately, the words “person-centered” are often used inaccurately, and/or in conjunction with an individual support plan. This is not person-centered planning.

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Charting the LifeCourse: A Human-Centric Approach to Supporting Persons with Disabilities and their Families

All people have the right to live, love, work, play and pursue their life aspirations. This belief drives the Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC) framework and tools. Developed in collaboration with family members and individuals with disabilities, CtLC helps individuals explore and navigate life and the...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Creating Person-Centered Systems

Services and supports are not just to protect people’s health and safety but to help them lead more fulfilling lives—lives in which they can define what is important to them. Embracing this idea is one thing; making it happen in practice is harder.

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

What is Graphic Recording?

People learn and communicate in different ways…One new and interesting communication art form is something referred to as graphic recording or graphic facilitating.

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Remembering Jeff Dickinson

As a dedicated and unwavering disability rights advocate, Jeff Dickinson committed himself to supporting efforts that brought about positive impacts for the disability community and to New Hampshire as a whole. He questioned misconceptions about disability and encouraged the need for social justice...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

In Memory of Denis Greenwood, NH advocate for recreation and education

Denis believed that individuals with lived experience of intellectual and developmental disabilities were life-long learners. He spent many years advocating for resources and educational opportunities to be provided to adults who did not have access to formal education as children.

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

Disability Rights Center – NH

Person-centered planning is not just a tool for individuals, it is also a way of thinking that can and should be implemented system-wide and within individual organizations…

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

NHCDD

The NHCDD develops and supports initiatives that promote disability justice through broadcast media…

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning Posted on February 2, 2024February 7, 2024

Helpful Tools and Resources

There are several different models and guides for person-centered planning…and this is your one-stop shop!

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 13, 2023February 7, 2024

Winter/Spring 2023: Words Matter

How does the language we use when talking about disability affect the way we see ourselves and each other?

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 10, 2023January 31, 2024

A Discussion on Language

By Nathaniel Livernois When describing my diagnosis, would it be better to say I am autistic or that I have autism? These two options are known as identity-first and person-first language. When using the former, it highlights one’s disability and relates it back to oneself. The latter acknowledges the person with disabilities...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 10, 2023February 14, 2023

A Definition of Disability

The prefix dis is often associated with something negative. It turns words like respectful or honest into disrespectful and dishonest. However, dis is also related to the Latin prefixes of bis and duo, both of which are related to the notion of twice or two ways. When considered this way, the term disability...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 10, 2023February 22, 2023

Linguistic Ableism

“Ableism is not a list of bad words. Language is one tool of an oppressive system. Being aware of language—for those of us who have the privilege of being able to change our language—can help us understand how pervasive ableism is. Ableism is systematic, institutional devaluing of bodies and minds deemed...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 10, 2023February 23, 2023

Four Disability Euphemisms That Need to Bite the Dust

By Emily Ladau One of the biggest disparities surrounding disability is the language people use to refer to it. I prefer to be a straight shooter and keep things simple by using the term “disabled person.” Other people choose alternative euphemisms to avoid saying that. While I know some people genuinely embrace words...

Posted in: Winter/Spring 2023 Words Matter Posted on February 10, 2023February 23, 2023

The Power of Language

By DRC-NH Legal Intern, Brianna Hankel The words idiot, imbecile, and moron are commonly used in everyday slang, but where did they originate? The answer is from the lexicon of Henry Goddard, an early twentieth-century psychologist and eugenicist who tried to prove that intelligence, criminal behavior, and work ethic were all determined by...

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