IDD Advocacy & Awareness

A short 4 minute powerpoint presentation on grief and loss in the IDD community and some of the learning that has come from my work with The Compassionate Corner.

A wooden gate sits at the end of a path that leads into a forest. Grief is not always recognised for what it is. It can be missed, minimised, or explained away, especially when it does not look the way others expect. For individuals in the IDD community, this happens more often than it should. There is a tendency to view grief through a narrow lens. It is expected to be visible, expressed in certain ways, and to follow a pattern that others can understand. When it does not, i