“Every Chipmunk is a Horseback Rider” by Jack Yates pretty much sums up the single most important rule you need to follow in you want your son or daughter with a disability to have a fulfilling life. #everykidisready

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Darcy Elks explains how meaningful social roles lead to fulfilling lives. When you think of all that is good and fulfilling in your life, what comes to mind? Mom, worker, wife, sister, daughter, friend, student, teammate… Our social roles define us. What social roles does your child with a disability have now? What are they working towards?

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Join Lisa Lightner, a special education advocate from A Day In Our Shoes, for a discussion on keeping the goal of community life and relationships at the core of your IEP planning.

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Karen Hunt has been listening to the Good Things In Life podcast and is a member of Inclusion Academy. Inspired by the idea that her son has potential for growth if barriers are removed, Karen has been thinking about small, important, actions that she can take to support her son to have greater autonomy, choice, and opportunity.

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We know that not having the right supports in place can be disastrous in the life of a person with a disability. It is also true that too much support is also dangerous. Just like Goldilocks, we need the type and amount of support to be just right. Keenan Wellar talks about the seven principles that his organization uses to provide just enough support.

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Darcy's presenting about the power of mindsets and expectations and it's just hugely powerful in helping us to support our loved ones to create a good positive lives. And it's important that we think about it because if we just wait and kind of ride on the coattails of the mindset and expectations that society has for our sons and daughters with intellectual disabilities, it's not going to lead to the good things in life.

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Vision boards are not just for artsy types! Vision boards tell your brain to keep looking for opportunities in the areas of life that you decide are important. Candy Motzek talks about how you can use vision boards to help you make actual progress towards achieving your vision of a good life for your daughter or son with a disability.

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Why is it so hard to support people with disabilities to build good lives? There are powerful forces at play like devaluation and discrimination. Which means that bad things will happen if we don’t have an alternative vision of a good life to focus on and people to help us along the way.

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Join Ben Drew from Open Future Learning for a discussion about finding a supporter that is a good “fit” for your son or daughter with a disability. It isn’t straight forward. There is no accurate assessment. But here are some helpful ideas to get you thinking. Making The Most Of 2020 is a quick guide to get you started. Download it now. You can read the full show notes and transcript here. If you are enjoying the Good Things in Life Podcast, I would so love it if you would rate and leave a review in

Ben Drew from Open Future Learning discusses underlying principles when thinking about the role and success of support workers. From supporting the support workers to protecting families and people with disabilities from being influenced by service rhetoric. You can read the full show notes and transcript here. If you are enjoying the Good Things in Life Podcast, I would so love it if you would rate and leave a review in iTunes. The more ratings and reviews the podcast gets, the more likely it that othe