Re: Disability Groups Urge Feds To Decide On Community Living - Disability Scoop

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From the article in Disability Scoop:

" In a joint letter sent last week to officials at the Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid Services, nearly 100 advocacy groups asked the government agency to

" move swiftly " on a proposed regulation that would limit the types of qualifying

residences under Medicaid home and community-based services waivers. "

Below is the report referred to in the joint letter, Keeping the Promise: Self

Advocates Defining the Meaning of Community Living.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/add/adddocs/KeepingthePromiseofCommunitySABEFina\

lApproved.pdf

Another interesting article from Forbes regarding autism mentions an autism

Farmstead, another successful lifestyle option.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/11/30/living-life-with-autism-aspe\

rger-has-anything-changed/

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> This is thought provoking...I have seen many " group homes " aka CILA's that

appear to be little more than small institutions.

> If the Feds have a problem with larger, regimented group homes, (and I agree

that this is a problem) let them consider funding living arrangements that

provide individualized choice and more community inclusion, including

competitive employment...and they had better include adequate compensation for

direct support professionals.

> Ellen

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