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talkingmats.bsky.social
Talking Mats creates ethical, rights based practice by reducing power imbalances, challenging assumptions about ability & ensuring decisions reflect the persons views #oureverydayrights #humanrightsday #humanrights2025 #supporteddecisionmaking
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Supported decision-making: A Human Rights Approach. - Improving Communication, Improving Lives
Talking Mats is a social enterprise whose vision is to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. How Talking Mats can improve communication and lives.
www.talkingmats.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
disabilityrightstx.bsky.social
#DDAwareness #SupportedDecisionMaking #SelfAdvocacy
March 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
storymuse.bsky.social
Launched a new project with the Georgia Advocacy Office, making short films about Supported Decision Making, an alternative to guardianship keeping people in the driver seat of their lives. Bonus: with Captain Crazy Productions!

#StoryMuse #TransformativeStorytelling #SupportedDecisionMaking
January 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
ninakohn.bsky.social
Glad that the Journal for Health Care Law & Policy with @umbaltimore.bsky.social is focusing its spring symposium on #disability and access to care. I'll be speaking on #SupportedDecisionMaking. Join us this Monday! Registration & details 👇

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March 10: Journal of Health Care Law and Policy Spring 2025 Symposium - The Elm
The Elm is a publication of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).
elm.umaryland.edu
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
tashorg.bsky.social
There are multiple ways to support decision-making – and not all require giving up rights.

Supported decision-making offers a person-centered approach that helps individuals make their own choices with trusted supports.

#DisabilityRights #SelfDetermination #SupportedDecisionMaking #TASH
May 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
sandra4cd20.bsky.social
AB 1663 has made Supported Decision Making the law in California. It reforms Conservatorship law and makes sure Disabled People keep their Civil and Human Rights. #SDM #SUPPORTEDDECISIONMAKING vimeo.com/1130989723
Supported Decision Making Legal Sector Film
This video explains AB 1663’s conservatorship reforms and how supported decision-making (SDM) is now recognized in California law. Legal professionals, family…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
enil-eu.bsky.social
Our #FreedomDrive 2026 demands are out!

We want:
💸Invest in #IndependentLiving in #EUbudget
🏘️#UniversalDesign mandatory in EU Housing Act
💼Invest in #InclusiveEmployment
⚖️Access to #SupportedDecisionMaking
👧Disabled women & girls in #GenderEquality & #Disability policy
A yellow background with a megaphone and a pick stripe reads: Demands of the European Network on Independent Living to the Freedom Drive 2026
July 15, 2026 at 8:32 AM
clionadebh.bsky.social
Now including people up to the age of 35!

Young people, age 16 - 35, who are non-speaking, sometimes speaking communicate differently and their supporters, I'm interested in hearing from you for my
@researchireland.bsky.social funded project.

#LoveIrishResearch #SupportedDecisionMaking #ADMCA
Poster the University of Galway and Research Ireland logos. The poster has a series of questions with pictures beside each answer. The text reads. Young people who are non-speaking, sometimes speaking or communicate differently and research on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act. Who can take part? Young people who are non-speaking, sometimes speaking or communicate differently aged from 16 to 35 years and their supporters can take part. They should have made or be getting ready to make a support agreement under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. What will people taking part have to do? People taking part in this research will have to tell Clíona things like who helps them to make decisions, what role under the new law they picked, what was easy or hard about learning about it or getting it set up. How can I find out more? Contact Clíona at cliona.debhailis@universityofgalway.ie or 0860081153
March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
disabilityrightstx.bsky.social
It's your life. Stay in charge of it.
When you create a Supported Decision-Making Agreement, you keep your rights & you decide - with help from someone you trust - how to live your life.
Learn more: disabilityrightstx.org/en/handout/c...

#DisabilityRights #SupportedDecisionMaking #SelfDetermination
Two women working on a form together. Featured Resource: Supported Decision-Making Agreement Tool.
February 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
communicationfirst.bsky.social
We attended the National Federation of the Blind’s tenBroek Disability Law Symposium. Our Director of Policy & Legal Advocacy Sam Crane presented on #SupportedDecisionMaking alongside #AACUser & SDM advocate Otto Lana, DREDF’s Ayesha Elaine Lewis, & ACLU’s Britt Belwine. @dredf.bsky.social @aclu.org
[Image: At the tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, Sam Crane, Ayesha Elaine Lewis, and Britt Belwine stand by fellow presenter Otto Lana who is seated at a conference table with his AAC device in front of him.]
April 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
jlme-journal.bsky.social
New open-access: "From Decision Supporter to Informed Surrogate: An Improved Approach to Enrolling Cognitively Impaired Subjects in Clinical Research" by Robert Randolph Harrison and Alannah Trombetta of @sjquinney.bsky.social . #SupportedDecisionMaking

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From Decision Supporter to Informed Surrogate: An Improved Approach to Enrolling Cognitively Impaired Subjects in Clinical Research Robert Randolph Harrison and Alannah Trombetta S J Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, United States Abstract While supported decision-making for persons with dynamic cognitive impairment has been considered in the context of medical treatment, there has been little attention to its application in the context of enrolling cognitively impaired subjects in clinical research. The Common Rule allows enrollment permission from a Legally Authorized Representative, one empowered under institutional policy to provide consent for subjects lacking decision-making capacity, but many Legally Authorized Representatives lack knowledge of the person’s values and preferences adequate to an ethically valid judgement about research enrollment. Supported decision-making and surrogate decision-making can be complementary as subjects transition between impairment stages, providing an opportunity to address ethical problems with the current practice of reliance on uninformed surrogates. Through designation of a supporter who is willing to serve through the progression of impairment, dementia patients choose their supporter and ultimate surrogate, engage with them on the issues that later give rise to requests to enroll the subject in research, and ensure that the surrogate will have knowledge of the values and preferences of the subject necessary to an ethically defensible substituted judgement. Legal frameworks can be adapted to provide recognition of research enrollment as an area of valid decision by supporters on behalf of beneficiaries. Keywords: Legally Authorized Representative; substituted judgement; supported decision-making; cognitively impaired; surrogate consent to research
April 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
accease.bsky.social
Hmm. An interesting idea... www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #disability #supporteddecisionmaking
App aims to empower decision making for disabled New Zealanders
One in 4 Kiwis identify as having a disability, and many find it difficult to communicate their preferences and choices to their supporters. Social enterprise Volition is developing a new app dedicate...
www.rnz.co.nz
June 27, 2024 at 2:50 AM
accessibilitychat.bsky.social
The legal argument beneath this:

Ohio's Supported Decision-Making Bill: What SB 35 Means for Disability Rights

Community: Who Does This Serve, and What Do They Actually Need

#Accessibility #ADA #SupportedDecisionMaking #DisabilityRights
Ohio's Supported Decision-Making Bill: What SB 35 Means for Disability Rights
Ohio Senate Bill 35 would let adults with developmental disabilities keep legal authority while designating trusted supporters. Here's what the framework actually does—and what it's missing.
accessibility.chat
September 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
nidus-resources.bsky.social
🧠💛 Today is International Self-Care Day!

Self-care isn't just about bubble baths and smoothies - it's also about taking steps to protect your rights, values, and well-being.

📘 Access free fillable #RepresentationAgreement forms: nidus.ca/ra-forms/

#PersonalPlanning #SupportedDecisionMaking #Nidus
July 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
mauinow.com
Gov. Josh Green, M.D., signed HB 320 into law on July 3, 2025, enshrining Supported Decision-Making Agreements into Hawai‘i statute for the first time.

#Disabilities #SupportedDecisionMaking #ADA
Hawai‘i enacts law affirming decision-making rights for people with disabilities
Gov. Josh Green, M.D., signed HB 320 into law on July 3, 2025, enshrining Supported Decision-Making Agreements into Hawai‘i statute for the first time.
mauinow.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
citizenptnewsmi.bsky.social
In a landmark ruling, the Wayne County Probate Court has affirmed Linda Van Warmer's right to make her own decisions, igniting a powerful conversation on supported decision-making in Michigan.

Get the details

#MI #CitizenPortal #SupportedDecisionMaking #EquityAndInclusion
Wayne County Probate Court Denies Guardianship Request for Linda Van Warmer
Court rules Linda Van Warmer capable of supported decision making regarding her life.
citizenportal.ai
July 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
drtgergel.bsky.social
Can we ever move beyond 'substitute decision-making' in mental health?

Can there ever be a place for #capacity assessments or involuntary treatment within a #supporteddecisionmaking-based system?

What insights can be provided through lived experience of psychosis?
January 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
patriciadudek.bsky.social
I’ve sent my message urging support for HB 4676 & HB 4677. This is so important for protecting the independence and rights of individuals with disabilities.

Add your voice 👇
https://www.votervoice.net/MDDC/Campaigns/134658/Respond

#Advocacy #DisabilityRights #SupportedDecisionMaking
March 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
autismspectrumnews.bsky.social
An #autistic cancer survivor used #SupportedDecisionMaking to maintain #autonomy over his medical treatment and life decisions rather than submitting to restrictive #guardianship. 👏

#DisabilityRights #GuardianshipReform #SelfAdvocacy

Via @WBUR

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I’m an adult with autism. I built a team to help me make decisions
Supported decision-making or SDM is an alternative to adult guardianship for people with a cognitive or intellectual disability, writes Jonathan Gardner. With SDM, I’m the CEO of my life. Rather than taking decisions away from people like me, SDM allows us to use supporters to help us make and communicate our own decisions.
www.wbur.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 AM
disabilityrightsar.bsky.social
Supported decision-making isn’t about taking control—it’s about sharing it. This approach helps people with disabilities stay involved in their own decisions, with guidance instead of restriction.

#SupportedDecisionMaking #DisabilityRights #AutonomyMatters #Inclusion
Graphic with soft waves of pink, blue, and coral. Text explains supported decision-making as a tool that protects rights while keeping individuals involved in choices. Emphasizes the need for a supported decision-making law in Arkansas and encourages autonomy, dignity, and independence.
June 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
citizenptnewsks.bsky.social
Kansas is on the verge of empowering adults with a groundbreaking Supported Decision Making Agreements Act that could transform guardianship options forever!

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#KS #PatientSafety #CitizenPortal #SupportedDecisionMaking #GuardianshipReform #KansasDisability
Supporters tell committee that supported decision‑making law would expand options to guardianship
House Bill 26 09 would create a statutory framework for supported decision‑making agreements, allowing adults to name supporters, setting duties and fiduciary limits, and providing third‑party recognition and penalties for misuse; disability advocates and clinicians urged passage as a less‑restrictive alternative to guardianship.
citizenportal.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:48 AM
gmhpn.bsky.social
Everyone deserves the dignity of choice. A rights-based approach to supported decision-making isn't about taking over.

This strengthens personal agency and fosters collaboration with mental health professionals—making informed choices accessible to all.

#SupportedDecisionMaking #InformedChoices
May 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM