ILO News & Updates

Thursday, June 30th, 2016 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog this week! As a community building organization, it goes without saying that everyone at ILO understands the importance of community. As parents, professionals and volunteers in the special needs...

Thursday, June 16, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome back to our website this week! As always, we are so pleased that you have chosen to spend some of your valuable time reading our blog, and connecting with the ILO network. As our regular visitors, self-advocates and...

Thursday, June 9, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog this week! Here at ILO, we are committed to building safe, inclusive communities in which adults with disabilities can lead rewarding lives; as such, we are also committed to providing them access to...

Friday, June 3, 2016 Individuals with disabilities face many challenges when it comes to post-secondary education. Experts in the disability field, as well as professors, special needs educators, and students themselves, identify obstacles such as poor study skills,...

Thursday, May 26th 2016 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog this week! A few weeks ago we wrote and published a blog titled Supported Decision Making: A Discussion. In that blog, we focused on Supported Decision Making (SDM) as a newly emerging legal method of...

Thursday, May 19th, 2016 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog today! Thank you all for taking the time to visit us this week. In today's blog post, we would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the incredible progress that Integrated Living Opportunities...

Thursday, May 12, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog this week! Today, we are very lucky to be able to share with you another post from ILO Participating Family member Barbara Goldschmidt. Today, Barbara writes about the importance of caring for...

Thursday, April 28th, 2016 As parents, we inherit many responsibilities when we bring a child into the world. We must feed, clothe, and care for our children; provide emotional support, love, and security. We guide them through their childhood and provide them with...

Thursday, April 21st, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog this week! Thank you all so much for taking the time to visit our website. Today, we would like to focus on an important piece of legislation that will provide tremendous financial benefits to...

Thursday, April 14th, 2016 Regular visitors to our weekly blog will no doubt have read and enjoyed the recent blog contributions by ILO participating family member Barbara Goldschmidt. Over the last couple of months, Barbara has been kind enough to share with us her...