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Glimpses<\/a><\/p>\n Keystone Human Services<\/a> KHS<\/a><\/p>\n KHSIA<\/a><\/p>\n Keystone Moldova<\/a> English and Keystone Moldova<\/a> Romanian<\/p>\n Keystone Human Services (KHS) is a non-profit organization that is a part of a global movement to provide support and expertise to people with disabilities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you first hear about Rick, you will likely hear all sorts of good things about him. <\/p>\n \u201cHe knows what he wants \u2013 he\u2019s a definite kind of guy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a good traveler by road and train.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a thoughtful, observant guy, easy going and kind.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, last September, that\u2019s how a group of Rick\u2019s family members and friends described him to others, all of whom gathered to think about his future.<\/p>\n With that lovely description as a foundation, now we were ready to meet Rick in a place that let us see him. No one mentioned the disability he experiences, any so called \u201cdeficits.\u201d Although having autism is a simple fact \u2013 some might consider it a problem, others might consider it an attribute \u2013 it does not define this young man with so much possibility laid out in front of him. Instead, we looked to the qualities that matter the most in thinking about someone\u2019s full life, even someone\u2019s calling. The way that people who know and care about Rick created such a powerful interpretation of him to the rest of us meeting him for the first time, that we were all able to envision him easily as the entrepreneur running a juice stand, a skier, a gamer, a bachelor chef, a tech-savvy man who is an excellent communicator. <\/p>\n At the close of the process, one of the circle members noted that this successful planning process was embedded in Rick\u2019s family and friends interpreting him so well to others present. There is a powerful role for each of us walking with people with disability to contribute to this process of interpretation \u2013 others look to those of us next to people with disabilities as guides, and when we say positive things in respectful ways, it puts good things into the minds of others about the person, and maybe about all people with disability. What a powerful lesson Rick\u2019s family and friends taught us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transformation-in-the-lives-of-people-with-disability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tKHS.org<\/h1>\n
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