What is the role of community attitudes, treatment and opportunities in supporting self-determination and self-direction?
The community as a place where people live, learn, work and play is a critical contributor to enhanced self-determination, as was discussed previously. Communities that welcome and support all members, provide opportunities to experience control and express preferences, provide opportunities for meaningful vocational and non-vocational activities, provide inclusive educational opportunities and are designed to ensure physical and cognitive access are places in which all people can live self-determined lives. The community as a social and political network is equally important. The normalization movement of the 1970s and the Independent Living movement of the 1980s set the stage, in many ways, for the self-determination movement of the 1990s by changing the way people with disabilities were perceived, indeed changing the broader understanding of the experience of disability, and changed societal expectations of Americans with disabilities from individuals who are pitied and worthy of ch
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