Feature Issue on Self Direction
What does loneliness look like?
An upcoming issue of Impact will focus on loneliness among people with disabilities. If you’re a person with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities, a researcher familiar with the high rates of loneliness among people with disabilities, or are working on a program to address loneliness, we want to hear from you. What is loneliness? Is it not enough social media likes? No one saying hello at the grocery store? Being in a crowded room but having no one to talk to? Send us a brief note that answers the question: What does loneliness look like to you?
Send it to Janet Stewart, Impact managing editor, at stew0390@umn.edu
Volume 37, Number 3 | Winter 2024-25
Feature Issue: Self-Direction and People with Intellectual, Developmental, and Other Disabilities
Issue Editors:
Marian Frattarola-Saulino, executive director, Values Into Action, Media, Pennsylvania
BJ Stasio, advocate and board member, Self-Advocacy Association of New York State, Buffalo, New York
Julie Bershadsky, director, Community Living and Employment, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Mpls.
Managing Editor: Janet Stewart
Graphic Designer: Sarah Curtner
Web Developers: Shawn Lawler, Jonathon Walz
Impact is published by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD), and the Research and Training Center on Community Living and Employment (RTC), College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. It is supported, in part, by Grant #90DDUC0070 from the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to the Institute; and Grant #90RTCP0003 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), HHS, to the RTC. Additional support for this issue was provided by Grant #5 T73MC12835-14-00 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HHS, to the Minnesota LEND.
The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute, Centers or University. The content does not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Health and Human Services, or Department of Education, and endorsement by the Federal Government should not be assumed.
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