Darkness into Light
By Mike Moloney, CEO , HMEA At one time, 7,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities lived in Massachusetts institutions. From Burton Blatt’s pictorial “Christmas in Purgatory” describing the conditions…
It Takes a Village
By Jaya Pandey “It takes a village is a proverb that leverages the cultural context and belief that it takes an entire community to raise a child. A…
Life on the Spectrum
By Ryan Litchfield, Self Advocate and Student Intern at Autism Resource Central Being diagnosed with full blown autism at the age of two, doctors didn’t think I would ever thrive…