Article 19 of the Convention recognizes the equal right of persons with disabilities to live in the community. The article is important to people with intellectual disabilities because it recognizes their right to choose where and with whom they live and it gives governments responsibility for providing supports to live in the community.
For many governments this obligation in the Convention will require that they develop plans for deinstitutionalizing people who are excluded from their communities and it will require the development of community capacity to support people to live in the community. Both the process of deinstitutionalization and the process of developing community supports are areas where our members will be called on to provide advice and assistance.
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Mother of a young adult living in an institution, I can't agree with the project of desinsintutionalisation. I clearly and strongly want the choice for my daughter to live in a sheltered place. An institution is a communuty, a sheltered community where she is much more integrated than in a "normal" community. The only point is the quality of living in an institution so the choice is a real choice.
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