Empowering Ability Podcast
By Eric Goll
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Episodes: 100
Description
Empowering people with disabilities to live an incredible ordinary life.
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#126 Facing Fear and Embracing Community Inclusion for People with Developmental Disabilities
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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#125 Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities: Moving Beyond Segregated Programs
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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#124 How Self Determination Disability Programs Can Empower Your Loved One with Developmental Disability
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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#123 Safety Skills for Adults with a disability: Protecting Your Loved One’s Independence
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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#122 What Will Happen to My Loved One with a Disability When I am Gone? Planning for a Secure Future
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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#121 Building a Good Life: The 8-Step Life Planning Process for Adults with Disabilities
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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#120 Four Keys to Setting Life Goals for Developmental Disabilities to Make 2026 the Best Year Yet
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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#119: Seeing Potential Over Disability: How Mindset Shapes Your Loved One’s Future
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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#118: Teaching Independent Living Skills: Coaching Your Loved One to Thrive
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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#117: Exploring 3 Alternatives to Group Homes for Adults with a Disability
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#116: What Is a Group Home? Understanding Housing Options for Adults with Disabilities
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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#109: The #1 Life Skill For Your Loved One With a Developmental Disability | Autism
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May 17, 2024 |
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#108: Understanding the Impact of Disability Only Workplaces
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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#107: Ordinary vs. Special: People with a Developmental Disability or Autism do NOT have to live a SPECIAL life
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#106: When Is the Right Time to Create a Life Plan for My Loved One with a Disability?
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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#105: Using Person-Centered Planning to Build a Good Life for Your Loved One with a Disability
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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#104: How to Engage a Neurotypical Sibling To Support A Sibling with Autism or a Developmental Disability
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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#103: The Power of Support Circles for Your Loved One
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#102: Strengthening Your Loved One’s Safety Net & Building Their Support Circle
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#101: Motivating Your Loved One with Disability and Overcoming Learned Helplessness
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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#100: Discover 4 Strategies to Get MORE Support for Your Loved One with a Developmental Disability/ Autism
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#099: What’s It Like to Live in Group Homes for Adults With Disabilities
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#098: Why a Special Needs Trust is NOT a Good Enough Plan: Do These 3 Additional Things
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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#097: How To Make 2024 Your Best Year Yet | For Families with Developmental Disability | Autism
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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#096: How To Teach Social Skills To People with Autism or a Developmental Disability
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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#095: 3 Strategies to Make the Holidays Easier For People with a Disability
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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#094: Unlocking Job Success for People with Developmental Disabilities, with guest Milton Tyree
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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#093: Who will be there for your loved one with a disability?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#092: Group homes: The dangerous truth
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#091: Breaking the Caregiving Dependency Cycle
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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#090: Julia’s Awesome Ordinary Life
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#089: Building Independence for People with a Developmental Disability with Routines & Failures
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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#088: Small Steps = Big Progress, for your Loved One with a Developmental Disability
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#087: Decision-Making Leads to Your Loved One’s Independence
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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#086: The Secret Sauce to Motivating Your Loved One
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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#085: Transitioning Towards Independence at Home
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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#084: Using Technology to Improve the Safety of your Loved One
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#083 A Lifeline in Your Pocket: Smartphones & Disability
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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#082: 30-Year Path of Inclusion: Darcy Elk’s Story
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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#081: Supported Employment for people with developmental disabilities, with Cesille Coulson
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#080: Inclusion in the Workplace (Part 2)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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#079: Inclusion in the Workplace (Part 1)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#078: No one dreams of going to a day program
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#077: Learn How Elaine Shifted From Caregiver to Coach and Created an Awesome Ordinary Life with Spencer
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#076: People do NOT want to live in group homes.
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#075: From dependence to independence, hear mother Alina’s story.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#074: Paid Supporters are NOT your loved one’s friend
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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#073: How Chloe left the high school transitions program and gained paid employment
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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#072: How to create a life plan
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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#071: Which of these 2 paths is your loved one on?
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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#070: What is a Life Plan?
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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#069: Stop telling, start listening.
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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#068: safety vs. independence
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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#067: Achieving your goals in 2022
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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#066: Jamie just moved into his home
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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#065: My #1 strategy to motivate your loved one
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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#064: Why focus on independence?
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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#63: We all fall down
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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#062: Joe Clayton’s Story Institutionalization and Building His Life Afterward
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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#061: The Power Of Positive Vision, with Lorna Sullivan
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Taking Charge of Life, with Libby Ellis
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Sexuality and Disability, with Dr. Margaret Newbury Jones
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May 07, 2019 |
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#058: What I learned Moving Out of Mom and Dad’s
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Bonus: If we aren't there for our loved one with a disability, who will be?
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Bonus: The two things successful families are doing
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Bonus: How to create and deepen relationships
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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#057: Imagining Better, with Michael Kendrick
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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#056: How To Create The Good Life, with Genia Stephen
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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#055: Navigating Grief, with Yvonne Heath
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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#054: Ben Drew's Mission to Fight Oppression and Create Ordinary Lives for People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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#053: Personal Support Networks, with Rebecca Pauls
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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#052: Creating a Pathway to Employment, with Joe Dale
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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#051: 9 Insights on Creating a Home for People with Disabilities
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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#050: We Are All Caregivers, With Donna Thomson
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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#049: Mental Health is Health, with Dr. Yona Lunsky
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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#048: Personal Transformation and Disability, with Ted Kuntz
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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#047: Mindshift & Enlightened Attentiveness, with Michael Kendrick
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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#046: Re-Writing Our Stories, with Brian Raymond King
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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#045: Uncovering the Truth: We are Oppressing People with Disabilities, With Lynne Seagle
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May 23, 2018 |
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#044: Resiliency and Compassion, with Joscelyn Duffy
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May 08, 2018 |
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#043: Building Relationship and Inclusion, with Nick Maisey
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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#042: Understanding the Sibling Experience, with Helen Ries
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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#041: A 4-Stage Framework to Build Relationships, for People with Disabilities, with Al Condeluci and Keenan Wellar
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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#040: Let it Rain, with Dr. Jennifer Forristal (N.D.)
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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#039: Siblings - Our Most Important Relationship, with Don Meyer
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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#038: Learn To Empower Yourself, with Dr. Annick Janson
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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#037: Redesigning the Disability Service Organization
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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#036: Non-Medical Approaches to Well-Being, with Janet Klees
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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#035: Thinking Differently About Disability, with David Hasbury
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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#034 How to Build Intentional Community, with Janet Klees and Linda Dawe
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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#033: Foster Family Care in Geel Belgium, with Toni Smit
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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#032: Siblings and The Power of 'Why Not?', with Melissa Janson
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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#031: Innovative Ideas and Mindsets to Housing, with Jessica Cave of Bridges to Belonging
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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#030: Creating a Secure Future, with Brendon Pooran
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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#029: Bill Hiltz's Story: Freed From the Cage of Incapability
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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#028: Self-Care and Parenting, with Ann Douglas
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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#027: Creating a Culture of Possibility, with Jeff Dobbin
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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#026: A 4-Part Strategy for Building Natural Relationships, With Janet Klees
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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#025: Giving People Their Own Front Door, with Chris Woodhead of Dimensions UK (Housing Mini-Series Part 5/6)
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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#024: Breaking Down Stigma, with Jackie Goldstein
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Aug 16, 2017 |