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“…often we
look so long at the closed doors that we do not see the
one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
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Find Support
In visiting this website, a family member or provider is asked to
reflect and act on the pertinent problems of concern. Begin by talking
to him or herself, next by having conversations with others and
securing a support person, and ultimately expanding to and establishing
a core or helping team, if needed.
"Village" Concept
One reason many parents have struggled with these
most difficult children is in part that they are left to themselves
to achieve the impossible. It is good to remind people that the
“village” concept may be required to bring up certain
special needs children, and it is why we start to build upon this
hope by connecting outside of the family. We offer many ideas toward
this end in Team
Building.
Scientific Knowledge - Medical Model
ABLE ideas offered here may not be sufficient in
themselves, and there is meant to be some overlap with other “tools”,
including the conventional, scientific, Anglo-European and empirically
derived ones. However, the main emphasis at ABLE is on what
really works. If usual resources have been tried but without
much success, ABLE Program suggests combining it’s ideas with
knowledge from which multi-modal solutions are promoted.
Multi-Cultural Knowledge - Contextual
Model
We at ABLE maintain that, “If it isn’t
working, try something different”. In addition to scientific
problem- solving tools, we advocate more traditional or long-standing
ideas including taking a bigger world-view and drawing on other
cultural and ethnic ways of figuring things out. Many “life-ways”
in the world espouse harmony rather than competition, collective
responsibility and solidarity rather than individuality,
context dependency in lieu of a single-event focus, family-centeredness,
strength-based, holistic and integrated solutions rather than
problem-focused ones, as well as other novel ideas coming from
multi-culturalism. See ABLE
Health Model of Supporting Families in the Community.
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