Topic
Health & wellbeing
Navigating healthcare, physical and mental health, aging, and communication.
- Aging with a Developmental Disability in Ontario: A Guide for Families
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, one of the most important things to understand is that later life often arrives sooner than you’d expect. Aging can begin in…
- Assistive Technology and Digital Inclusion in Ontario: A Family Guide
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, the right technology can genuinely widen their world — more independence, safer days, new ways to learn and connect. But a…
- Communication and AAC for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, one of the most important things you can do is make sure they have a reliable way to be heard — with or without speech. This…
- Crisis Situations and the Justice System in Ontario: A Guide for Families and Support Workers
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, one of the hardest things to think about — but one of the most important to prepare for — is what happens if they come into…
- Culturally Responsive Support for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, and your family speaks another language, holds a faith or worldview that isn’t the system’s default, is newcomer, racialized,…
- Dual Diagnosis and Diagnostic Overshadowing in Ontario: A Family Guide to Mental Health and Developmental Disability
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, one of the most important things to understand is that a mental health condition can sit alongside the disability — and that…
- Navigating Healthcare for an Adult with a Developmental Disability in Ontario
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, one of the hardest and most important jobs is helping them get good healthcare. Adults with a developmental disability tend…
- Physical Health and Active Living for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, keeping them physically well and active is one of the highest-value things you can do — and one of the most overlooked.…
- Positive Behaviour Support in Ontario: A Plain-Language Guide for Families
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, you’ve probably been told they have “behaviours” — and perhaps been asked to help “manage” them. This guide offers a gentler…