Supported decision making

"People with disability are often not allowed to make a lot of their own decisions. This usually happens because someone else takes on the role to protect the person with disability from the consequences of poor choices. This can start from a very young age." It can be very hard for parents, siblings, service providers etc to “allow” people with disability to make what they consider “poor” decisions, but our role as carers, family and workers is not to strip…