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"Toward Full Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities"

Developmental Services Inclusion - Tool Box

There are currently three toolboxes of resources on Inclusion available for loan. The list of videos, books, and articles will continue to be updated as new items are secured.  Also, feel free to suggest resources that we should look into acquiring.

Currently the three tool boxes are in Regional BDS Offices with Training Coordinators.

These resources can be borrowed for 2 weeks through:

Region I -  Lisa.D.Sturtevant@maine.gov
Region II -  Roxanne.Rollins@maine.gov
Region III -  Phil.Leonard@maine.gov

Books

• "Members of Each Other, Building Community in Company with People with Disabilities",
  John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien

• "A little book about, Person Centered Planning",
  Inclusion Press
• "Positive Profiles, Building Community Together",
  Ernest Panscofar. Training Resource Network
  
• "Hints for Graphic Facilitators",
  Jack Pearpoint. Inclusion Press
• "Supported Employment in Business, Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities",
  Training Resource Network
• "Dusting Off the Tool Box: Tips for Trainers",
  Linda Labas and Michael Sandberg, Center for Community Inclusion.   University of Maine
• "Yes! She Knows She’s Here",
  Nicola Schaefer.   Inclusion Press
• "From Behind the Piano and What’s really Worth Doing and How to Do It",
   Judith Snow.   Inclusion Press
• "The Whole Community Catalogue, welcoming people with disabilities into the heart of community life",
  compiled by David Wetherow. Communita’s Inc.
• "Who Cares?, Rediscovering Community",
  David B. Schartz. Westview Press
• "Speechless, Facilitating communication for people without voices",
  Rosemary Crossley. Dutton Publishing
• "Action for Inclusion, How to Improve Schools by Welcoming Children with Special Needs Into Regular Classrooms",
  John O’Brien, Marsha Forest and Co. Inclusion Press
• "Don’t Pass Me By, Writings from the Street",
  Gary Owen Bunch. Inclusion Press

Videos and CD Roms

• "Friendship, Its About Time" , the story of Judith Snowe, Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest’s friendship. Inclusion Press

• "Together We’re Better"
  Tape 1: Introduction to Inclusion, Tape 2: Strategies, Tape 3 Maps and Paths. Inclusion Press

• "Leaving the Workshop", Freeport Towne Square

• "Tools for Change", Person Centered Tools for Change, CD-Rom. Inclusion Press