This is a story of resilience and possibilities, as people with disabilities take charge of their own lives and work with others to create positive change in their community. This book highlights 25 years of the Independent Living movement in Canada. It shows how the move to citizenship and consumer direction has had an enormous impact on the lives of Canadians with disabilities.
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Keynote address made at the Waterloo Wellington Mental Health & Addictions Network Launch, May 5, 2009
Summary Report of the Forum on Research-Inspired Social Innovation and Community Change in Waterloo Region, sponsored by the Centre for Community Based Research and its partners, Social Innovation Generation/University of Waterloo and the Region of Waterloo, December 2008
This presentation was made to the Independent Planning and Facilitation Symposium, Guelph, Dec. 2, 2008
This summary of John Lord’s reflections was given at the closing plenary at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Canadian Association for Community Living in Ottawa . November 2008
This article appeared in the Journal on Developmental Disabilities Communicator, Volume 14, No.2, 2008
This article was published in the Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 28, No 1, Winter 2008
This paper summarizes why the expansion of autonomous family groups and networks is a promising development. It also outlines how progressive service providers understand this change and are nurturing the development of autonomous family groups and networks. June 2007
PDF of Power Point Presentation made at “Freedom, Reconciliation, and Community Living for All; A Forum on Deinstitutionalization”, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan May 3, 2007.
An excerpt from “Pathways to Inclusion: Building a New Story with People and Communities”, a book by John Lord and Peggy Hutchison, to be published in the spring of 2007.
Fifty Years of Community Living
Pathways to Inclusion, 2e
Facilitating an Everyday Life
