Make the Day Matter! Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults With Significant Disabilities

With this illuminating resource, professionals can tap into the best, most current knowledge on helping adults with significant disabilities enjoy active, rewarding, and meaningful daytimes in their communities. Readers will get proven ideas for supporting adults as they find or create employment that fits their goals and desires, pursue their interests and hobbies, participate in postsecondary education, develop social relationships and community connections, explore opportunities for paid self-advocacy and systems change work, and maintain active and healthy lifestyles as they age. Detailed case studies from across the country combine with practical guidelines to show readers how to replicate success stories, and extensive discussion of organizational change helps facilitate the critical shift from facility-based to community-based services.Rogan, Patricia M. is the author of 'Make the Day Matter! Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults With Significant Disabilities', published 2007 under ISBN 9781557667137 and ISBN 1557667136.