Michael talks about the meaning of personalization and why this concept has become increasingly important and talked about in the disability field.
Videos on Personalized Approaches by Michael Kendrick PhD
Personalized Approaches to Support
Michael discusses some of the barriers that make it difficult to increase personalization in services in the disability field.
Michael discusses the principles needed to guide successful implementation of personalized supports in the disability field.
Michael outlines key strategic investments systems can make to support implementation of personalized supports in the disability field.
Michael offers practical advice for change makers who want to advance personalized supports in the disability field.
Michael talks about different ways that people can be supported to imagine better about what is possible.
Michael discusses policy and practice issues that impact supported decision making. 
Michael talks about the meaning of supported decision and the role it can play in the lives of people with disabilities.
Supported decision making helps people with disabilities exercise their legal capacity and make important life decisions with the help of a network of trusted advisors.

Networks typically include family members, friends and others who have a deep understanding of the person and their hopes, dreams and preferences.

Supported decision making can help ensure that personalized support options reflect the needs and wishes of people with disabilities.
Supports provided to people with disabilities must help them achieve quality of life outcomes that reflect what they want to achieve. In the video on the left, Julie Beadle Brown talks about strategies leading international organizations are using to become more person centered.

The other videos o
n this page feature interviews with Michael Kendrick PhD on different aspects of personalization. There are also two videos on supported decision making which is critical for people who need support to exercise their legal capacity and make their preferences and choices clear.
Videos on Supported Decision Making by Michael Kendrick PhD
Michael Kendrick PhD
In this video Julie Beadle Brown discusses how
leading organizations are becoming
more person centered.
Committed to
transforming human services so people with intellectual, physical and psycho-social disabilities and seniors can live as
FULL citizens.
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