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Training Curriculum for Community Based Groups:

•  Challenges Facing Parents With Developmental Disabilities:
  "Life experiences of parents with developmental disabilities may take their toll over time, especially if others have negatively valued the parents.  Over time, parents may have internalized these negative expectations.  Parents with developmental disabilities may report..."
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• Are Children With Developmental Disabilities More Likely
  to be Abused?:
  "The literature presents contradictory findings in response to this question.  What is known is that children with developmental disabilities are at least as likely to be abused and neglected as the general population.  There is, however, some data to suggest that we should sound the alarm bell a little louder for children with developmental disabilities."
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• Language Speaks Loudly:
  "The same courtesy and respect have not been extended to people with developmental disabilities or other handicapping conditions. They have been introduced and described as a "developmentally delayed girl" or a "handicapped boy". Listeners have made great assumptions based on this description and somehow the individuality of people with special needs has been diminished."
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• Criteria To Receive Services:
  "In most states, a person shall be determined to have a developmental disability and be found eligible to receive services if the disabling condition meets all of the following criteria...."
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• Assessing Strengths And Stresses With Families With Children With Special Needs: An Ecological Perspective:
  "An ecological perspective looks at families in their environment- it looks at the stresses and strengths of the family and the environment, and the way the family and the environment interact. Does the environment meet the family's needs or does the family fit the environmental expectations?"
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