Archive for the tag 'disability'

Advocacy, General Assembly

Reflections on the 2008 Legislative Session

A Season of Accomplishment
Long-Term Care Community Choices Act – More than 20 years of hard work between the disability and aging communities laid the groundwork for reforms that will provide real choice in long-term care for Tennesseans.
HCBS Pilot – Supplementing the above this legislation will establish self-directed pilots across the state. (SB1157/HB0941)
Restraint and Seclusion [...]

Events

Inclusion for the General Ed Classroom

“GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL”
Inclusion Strategies for the General Education Classroom

Monday, June 9th
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Check-in and continental breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
MRL Room 241
While open to all educators, administrators, parents and advocates, this seminar is designed primarily for the general education teacher, and will focus on strategies for meaningfully including [...]

Events

Breaking Ground - Arts Edition

Do you write short stories or poetry?
Do you paint, draw or take pictures?
Then we’d like to see your work for possible publication!
The editor will consider:

Fiction, up to 1,000 words, and poems, whether traditional or modern.
Photos and all other forms of artwork.

Our color pages are limited, so the submitted material must reproduce well in black-and-white.
All entries [...]