Reflecting on Getting Ready

Reflecting on Getting Ready

“…often we look so long at the closed doors that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

Find Support
In visiting this website, a family member or provider is asked to reflect and act on the pertinent problems of concern. Begin by talking to him or herself, next by having conversations with others and securing a support person, and ultimately expanding to and establishing a core or helping team, if needed.

"Village" Concept
One reason many parents have struggled with these most difficult children is in part that they are left to themselves to achieve the impossible. It is good to remind people that the “village” concept may be required to bring up certain special needs children, and it is why we start to build upon this hope by connecting outside of the family. We offer many ideas toward this end in Team Building.

Scientific Knowledge – Medical Model
ABLE ideas offered here may not be sufficient in themselves, and there is meant to be some overlap with other “tools”, including the conventional, scientific, Anglo-European and empirically derived ones. However, the main emphasis at ABLE is on what really works. If usual resources have been tried but without much success, ABLE Program suggests combining it’s ideas with knowledge from which multi-modal solutions are promoted.

Multi-Cultural Knowledge – Contextual Model
We at ABLE maintain that, “If it isn’t working, try something different”. In addition to scientific problem- solving tools, we advocate more traditional or long-standing ideas including taking a bigger world-view and drawing on other cultural and ethnic ways of figuring things out. Many “life-ways” in the world espouse harmony rather than competition, collective responsibility and solidarity rather than individuality, context dependency in lieu of a single-event focus, family-centeredness, strength-based, holistic and integrated solutions rather than problem-focused ones, as well as other novel ideas coming from multi-culturalism. See ABLE Health Model of Supporting Families in the Community.

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