Volume 13
- Issue 1: “But they’re incapable…”: Considering the Ethical Significance of Assent and Dissent
- Issue 2: Person-Centred End-of-Life Planning for Direct Support Professionals
- Issue 3: Changing the Conversation: Let’s Talk Disability and Sex
- Issue 4: Psychological Safety and Direct Support Professionals
Volume 12
- Issue 12: The Transformative Potential of Expressive Arts Therapy
- Issue 11: An Enriched Communication Approach in Sensory Loss
- Issue 10: Dignity of Risk – How Direct Support Professionals Can Build Risk into Learning
- Issue 9: We’re Using Positive Reinforcement, so it’s all Good – Right?
- Issue 8: Summer Fun Creative Ways to get out and About!
- Issue 7: Risky Business
- Issue 6: Developing Partnerships for Family-Managed Supportive Living Arrangements
- Issue 5: Misbehaviour: Are You Missing the Point?
- Issue 4 : The Importance of Self-Care for Direct Support Professionals
- Issue 3: The Impact of Limited Body Awareness: What can be Done?
- Issue 2: Considering Consent and Capacity
- Issue 1: Understanding Transference and Countertransference in the Direct Support Profession
Volume 11
- Issue 12: Holiday Tips 2.0
- Issue 11: Bridging Behavioural Skills Training and Compassionate Care
- Issue 10: Social Stories – An Accessibility Ramp
- Issue 9: The 2 Keys to Power: Responsibility and Accountability
- Issue 8: Without Direct Support Professionals in My Life, I Don’t Have a Life
- Issue 7: Communication in Group Living – Considerations, Inclusion, and Activities
- Issue 6: Good Grief: Supporting People Through the Grieving Process
- Issue 5: AAC for the Direct Support Professional: Aided Language Modeling
- Issue 4: The Power of Gratitude as Attitude
- Issue 3: My COVID Check-in: A new tool to support people with developmental disabilities to live their best and healthiest lives during a pandemic
- Issue 2: Relationships & Rollercoasters. Supporting People with IDD throughout Relationships – A Trauma-Informed Approach
- Issue 1: Inclusion and Housing Instability – A Beginners Guide to Navigating Barriers to Housing
Volume 10
- Issue 12: The Zen of Tom
- Issue: 11: Trauma-Informed Support for Direct Support Professionals
- Issue 10: Providing Support in a Treatment Program for for Persons who Engage in Sexually Concerning Behaviours
- Issue 9: The Art of Assertion
- Issue 8: DAVE
- Issue 7: One Candle: Finding Hope in the Darkness of a Pandemic
- Issue 6: The Art and Science of Verbal De-escalation
- Issue 5: The Art of Apology
- Issue 4: Finding our way out of this hot mess called COVID-19
- Issue 3: THREE P’S IN THE POD: The Pandemic, the Professionals, and the People
- Issue 2: Nine Codes, Two Stories and One Message – A Deep Dive into the NADSP Code of Ethics
- Issue 1: Doing the Right Thing When Nobody is Looking: Ethics for Direct Support Professionals
Volume 9
- Issue 12: The Things I say to Myself: The Importance of Self-Talk
- Issue 11: Navigating Virtual Services: Strategies for Supporting People with DD
- Issue 10: Working Effectively with Families
- Issue 9: Never Clocking Out: The Responsibilities of Direct Support Professionals Off Duty
- Issue 8: To Show Up and Step Up: A Reflection
- Issue 7: HELP During COVID-19: Thoughts about meeting the mental health needs of adults with developmental disabilities and those that support them
- Issue 6: Responding Creatively: A Time Called for Physical Distancing
- Issue 5: Human Trafficking and People with an Intellectual Disability Staying as Safe as Possible
- Issue 4: Humble Pie
- Issue 3: Stepping into the Role of Direct Support Professional
- Issue 2: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Celebrating our 100th Issue
- Issue 1: Disability as it Exists in a Culture of Bullying and Social Violence: What Direct Support Professionals Can Do to Help
Volume 8
- Issue 12: Sepsis: What is it? How bad is it? What can DSPs Do?
- Issue 11: The Act of Kindness: A Challenge for Direct Support Professionals
- Issue 10: When Death Happens at Work: Working With and Through the Grieving Process
- Issue 9: The Nuts and Bolts of Health Care Project
- Issue 8: The Habit of Hierarchy: Power, Privilege and Prestige
- Issue 7: The 21 Lessons for Supporting Persons with Disabilities: Lessons 15-21
- Issue 6: The 21 Lessons for Supporting Persons with Disabilities: Lessons 8-14
- Issue 5: The 21 Lessons for Supporting Persons with Disabilities: Lessons 1-7
- Issue 4: Tips to Ease Dental Care
- Issue 3: When You Need to, Please Go Ahead and Borrow my Belief, I have Plenty
- Issue 2: The Alphabet Community: Who We Are and What We Need From You
- Issue 1: Follow the Passion: Broadening the Possibilities for Work and Meaningful Contributions
Volume 7
- Issue 12: Leadership: Boats in the Harbour
- Issue 11: Staying Buoyant While Under Attack
- Issue 10: Supporting People with IDD as they Age
- Issue 9: On Being an Educational Assistant
- Issue 8: The August Issue: Developing Personal Leadership
- Issue 7: Knock, Knock, Who’s There? The Do’s and Don’ts of Being Employed in Someone’s Home
- Issue 6: The Power in “My”
- Issue 5: Building Sensory Gardens, Rooms & Kits
- Issue 4: The Three Faces of Integration and Inclusion
- Issue 3: Hurry Up and Wait Your Turn – How to win at the waiting game
- Issue 2: 22q11.2 Deletion syndrome (22q): Help for people with an under recognized condition
- Issue 1: Reflections from the Other Side of Retirement
Volume 6
- Risks and Responses: HIV and AIDS and People with Developmental Disabilities
- Healing, Hurt and Wholeness: Why Therapy For People With Intellectual Disabilities?
- Determination, Strength and Power: The Direct Support Professional and Making Social Change
- Respecting Disability While Focusing on Ability: How to be a Successful DSP
- A Table In The Shade: Summer, Picnics and Fun
- Summer Days Summer Ways: How Direct Support Professionals can make Summer Happen for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- Speaking OUT: Understanding Sexuality and Diversity in LGBTQ+ Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
- Ouch! How Understanding Pain can Lead to Gain
- Voices from a Silent Journey
- More than a Role; More than Just Play: The Effective Use of Role Play for Direct Support Professionals in Working with People with Intellectual Disabilities
- PWS: Living Beyond the Initials
- Everyone Has a Voice – Self-Advocacy, Community Activism and One Woman’s Story
Volume 5
- The Art of Holding Space
- Deeply Frank: Getting Serious About Person-Centered Thinking
- In Case of Emergency, Please Read: Ideas and Strategies for Supporting People with Developmental Disabilities Receiving Emergency Care
- Supporting Informed Decision Making: Something Every Direct Support Professional Should Do!
- Living Locally: Understanding Community Supervision
- The Health Check: What it is and what do staff need to know
- The Power of ‘NO’
- Engaging Insight: Keys to Person-Centered Thinking
- Howdy Partner – Direct Support Professionals and the Skills Needed to Navigate the Various Partnerships which Come with the Role
- Anxiety: Roaming Through the Stepping Stones
- Let’s talk…about mental health and developmental disabilities
- Resolved: Change the World
Volume 4
- Warning! Warning! Charts and Graphs Ahead – What’s the Point of Data?
- The Power of a Growth Mindset
- When Push Comes to Shove: The Pusher’s Handbook (Part One)
- The Scoop on Poop
- Pey-shuh ns: Who We Are Or What We Do?
- Someone is No One. Someday is Never
- Conversation Pieces: Using Artwork and Art-Making to Enhance Communication for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- Like Ability: 10 Basic Skills That Promote Relationships
- The View from the Other Side of Care
Volume 3
- Food, Flavours & Finding Connections: Honouring Diversity in the Kitchen
- Movember and Men’s Health: What You Should Know
- No Borderline between Respect and Care: Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities who have Borderline Personality Disorder
- Something is Different Here: Promoting Awareness of an Invisible Disorder
- The Art of Summer
- Workforce Transformation: From Caregivers to Direct Support Professionals
- Medication, Education and Advocacy: Useful Insights – Improving How People with Developmental Disabilities use Medication
- It’s a Juggling Act! Navigating the Emotional Journey of Returning to Work
- Getting Psyched! Psychiatric Consultation in Dual Diagnosis
- Positively Magical- What we think about what we do
Volume 2
- Voice: Avoiding the Temptation to Silence, Promoting the Need to Listen
- Already Sweet Enough: Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities who have Diabetes
- Cognitive Ramping: Principles of Plain Language and Accessible Communication
- Willie Wellness: What you need to know in Order to Provide Effective Care, Down there, for Men with Disabilities
- Inclusive, Exclusive Vacations: Planning Vacation for People with Significant Needs
- Burritos and Cherry Pies: Saying Yes, Saying No
- Mindfulness: Making Moments Matter
- Um, It’s a Human Thing…Being Careful about Diagnostic Overshadowing for People with Disabilities
- Keeping the ME in Media: Thoughts, Ideas and Tips for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Use Social Media
- Wonder…Woman: Providing Wonderful Care to Women with Disabilities
- The Normal Heart: Supporting Love and Romance within Service Systems
- The Top Ten Strategies of All Time for Promoting Positive Behaviour
Volume 1
- The Gifts of the Season: The Gifts of Service
- You Just Don’t Do That: Drawing the Line Between Direct Support Staff and People with Disabilities
- The Alibi of Tyrants: Power and Control in Service Provision
- Talking Turf: The Job of Being a Good Neighbour
- Faith, Freedom and Fealty: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live Freely
- Beaches, Bodies and Barbeques: Cautions and Tips for Direct-Care Staff Supporting People with Disabilities in the Summer
- Labour Pains: 10 Strategies for Coping When Hurt by Someone you Support
- Breasts, Buttocks and Boundaries: Confident Clothing Choices for Direct Care Professionals
- Counterfeit Criminality: Cautions in Community Living
- Grief: When you are at a Loss after a Loss