Authors: John Morgan, Bonnie F. Zimble
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Introduction:
Credo for
Support
Special Care in Dentistry
John Morgan, DDS
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, 2008
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People
with disabilities such as intellectual disability, autism, learning
disabilities, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, spina
bifida, sensory impairments, and others, have undergone a long history
of misunderstanding, ridicule, segregation and even abusive treatment
in the name of behavior management.
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Societal conditions for persons with disabilities have
improved greatly in recent years. Behavioral methods are no longer used
in coercive ways, but are now employed at they were originally intended
- as a means of positive support.
Still there is much room for
improvement, and that begins with us all gaining a
better understanding of the experience of disability, including how our
“helpâ€&; may be perceived. What better way than to hear these
perspectives directly from persons with
disabilities!
Click
here to view
the short online video, "Credo for
Support."
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