Tips for Residential Staff Serving People with Intellectual Disabilities

The following is provided to us from VITA Community Living Services:

Loneliness.

Loss.

Isolation.

These are not words that one often associates with the Holiday Season. We see images of happy families gathering, commercials of loving parents searching for presents for their perfect children, holiday movies emphasize home and heart. For many people, however, the holidays increase their sense of isolation, rejection and exclusion. This can be especially true for many with intellectual disabilities. Those who lived in institutions often do not have a history of close family ties or a multitude of friends. This season can bring home, a powerful sense of loss.

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