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JANETTE VANCE
ADVOCATE OF THE MONTH - FEBRUARY 2007

Websites: The Asperger's Express - Family Alliance - APRAIS

CAICA is honored to recognize Janette Vance as Advocate of the Month.

Janette is a parent advocate living in New Jersey, and one of the founding members of The Family Alliance to Stop Abuse and Neglect.  She created and maintains the highly-rated Family Alliance website to share her successful ideas, strategies, and philosophy with other families. She also created the web site for APRAIS (Alliance for the Prevention of Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion). (Website links below.)

Janette researches and writes on disabilities issues, frequently meets with and helps to educate legislators on the rights and needs of individuals with disabilities, and serves as an advocate for individuals in schools and in state institutions.  

Janette's daughter, who has Asperger's, is a student in her local Middle School.  She has benefited enormously from Janette's gentle and respectful developmental approach to meeting her needs, which emphasizes understanding and working with her sensorimotor differences as well as respecting her cognitive style and desire for meaningful activities. 

Janette was one of the persons who spoke during an Assembly Regulatory Oversight Committee meeting in September 2004 to discuss the rules proposed to implement the requirements of Danielle's Law. After the needless and most likely preventable death of Danielle J. Gruskowski, it was clear something needed to change in order that what happened to her would not happen to another disabled person. Danielle's Law was proposed and passed wherein staff members working directly with people with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury would be mandated to call 911 in life-threatening emergencies.

Below are the websites Janette created and maintains:

The Asperger's Express

Family Alliance

APRAIS

 

 

 

 

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