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The Importance Of Recognizing ‘The Dignity Of Every Person’ (With Wendy Jones)

The Importance Of Recognizing ‘The Dignity Of Every Person’ (With Wendy Jones)

Update: 2025-02-26
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This week, Thrive Dispatches Host and Thrive Center director, Dr. Matt Biel, has a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with Thrive faculty member Wendy Jones about inclusion, self-determination, and working with families with parents who have intellectual or developmental disabilities. They also discuss how her past experiences working as a bilingual special educator in New York City inform her work and spirit of advocacy now.


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The Importance Of Recognizing ‘The Dignity Of Every Person’ (With Wendy Jones)

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