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Ontario to overhaul its developmental disability services using SIS

A major review of developmental disability services is underway in Ontario, and over 2,000 self advocates and families, and twelve agencies across Ontario are currently participating in a pilot study using the Supports Intensity Scale.

Catching up with Louisiana, post hurricanes Katrina and Rita

The “two wicked stepsisters” as they say in Louisiana’s developmental disability circle—referring to hurricanes Katrina and Rita—may have created a slippery launch for SIS in 2005, but it did nothing to dampen the spirits of the SIS Louisiana project staff.

Despite cultural differences, "SIS is the right and good instrument for us," says an adults services supervisor in Taiwan

In Taiwan, the Supports Intensity Scale is providing an alternative for institutions to people with intellectual disabilities, thanks to funding and a major push from the Department of Interior.

How SIS helped Sue use the post office independently

Jonathon Crumley shares a real life example of how simple, yet profound of an effect determining the right support can make to the life of a person living with an intellectual disability.

The Supports Intensity Scale will soon be available in French!

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is poised to publish a French translation of the Supports Intensity Scale that can be adapted to French-speaking countries worldwide.