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The Riot is excited to announce that Space Race is now available for purchase at www.theriotrocks.org/products/space-race.  The Space Race game is a new resource for developmental disability service providers, transition specialists, self-advocates, and others involved in person-centered planning processes or in teaching people how to use self-directed supports. 

Apostrophe, a magazine for people with disabilities, recently reported on The Riot!'s new website in an article titled: Self-advocacy newsletter launches new website.   The new website features improved acessibility controls, toolkits, products, games, and showcases work from Spotlight Studios, a gallery dedicated to displaying work from artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

"Together, we take a tough and honest look at sensitive issues like closing institutions, silly rules that keep people down, disability pride and intimate relationships.  We tell it like it is - Riot style, with a purpose and a sense of humor."

- HSRI Policy Associate Jaime Daignault

Apostrophe is a quarterly magazine involved in the lives of people affected by intellectual disabilities, providing jobs, opportunities, resources and support. The article may be accessed on page 52 in the article viewer in the following link (requires Flash):
http://apostrophe.journalgraphicsdigital.com/current/

Rowdy Riot gets a redo!

The Riot! has changed a lot over the past six years! It has grown from an eight-page newsletter with a few hundred subscribers to a popular publication with a huge following and a national and international reputation!

Today, the Riot! is much more than a newsletter – it’s an enterprise. It grew from an unruly tendril to a rowdy vine with no place to go. We had to give it more room and we had to do something fast! So we gave The Riot! a new look and a new website where you can talk it up on the blog with other readers and see products and services that promote self-advocacy and self-determination. You can also visit Spotlight Studios, an online art gallery that celebrates artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Who knew that if you put it in the sun, it would grow?!

Check out the new riot website: www.theriotrocks.org and have yourselves a regular Riot!

Welcome to the Art Issue!

With this issue, our goal was to raise awareness, celebrate artists with disabilities, and challenge misperceptions about people with disabilities and their ability to create something of value. We also introduced the Riot’s new online art gallery, Spotlight Studios.

How well did we do at reaching our goals? See for yourself. Check out the Art Issue and have yourselves a regular Riot!

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You can visit The Riot! website here:  www.theriotrocks.org

Check out the latest issue of the Riot!  This one features an exclusive interview with the new Commissioner of the US Administration on Developmental Disabilities  --  a REAL SCOOP.

The Riot! is hosting a three part national conversation on employment for self-advocates. The first call focused on what self-advocates want to be doing during the day. The second call, June 7th, will be a discussion with field experts about employment opportunities for self-advocates, and alternatives to employment. The last call, July 12, will focus on how self-advocates can get the jobs and experience they want. For more information, visit www.theriotrocks.org .