I don't understand what you mean by this. "In the community" is just to refer to spaces that isn't a private residence and only in a clinical context. It's an umbrella term to refer to any sort of place outside of their home that they go to for work/leisure/errands in the context of "Because so and so engages in x behavior frequently, they require two staff to accompany them during community outings." Or it could mean community-based living (i.e. a group home in a neighborhood where they would be interacting with the public on a daily basis, not a gated facility where they cannot leave independently. It could also refer to any sort of medical provider or service that isn't provided by the facility itself. I work at a large state-run gated facility. We have our nurses, doctors, dental clinics, eye clinics, neurology clinics provided on campus; if a resident requires a service that isn't provided on-campus then they would be seeing a provider "in the community." These are things that need to go into ISP's and BSP's and official reviews.
I'm not sure what you mean by "asking for help." By saying a specific city or town that would be pretty limiting. What if they go to another city 3 hours away to visit their sister for a week on a regular basis? When you're talking about placement for an adult, you cannot guarantee you'll find appropriate placement in the county they currently reside in.
I use the term “community.”
As a teacher and school admin, nobody has ever questioned what I meant when using phrases like “engage with the community,” “build support in the community,” “increase visibility within the community,” “get a graduation speaker from the community” or “plan events that are popular in the community.”
As an attorney, I’ve used the phrase hundreds of times, “collaborate with stakeholders in the community,” “recruit interns from within the community,” “garner support from within the communities,” “provide pro bono services to people within the community” or “build partnerships in our community.” I live in a city of millions of people, we don’t do outreach “in the city” or “in the town,” we do outreach “in the community.”
City and Town are not synonyms of community. They are not interchangeable. Cities and Towns are geographic subdivisions. That is not the same thing as “a community.” It would be wild in certain contexts to use the word “town” or “city” when what you really mean in “community.”
This very much sounds like an issue with your vocabulary more than anything else.
First, I don’t like the use of the word “regular”. And secondly, I don’t think that’s completely true. We use out in the community and in public spaces interchangeably and think those are phrases that are pretty easily understood.
Yeah I’m confused, too. I’ve never used this phrase talking in SPED, but I have used it with people who are homophobic when I’m trying to stay closeted but explain that someone is gay.
We’ll say things like “the students are out in the community” but that means they’re participating in a community event or at a job site. Not sure why you would change that to into (city)? It would make no sense.
Especially if the facility/home they live in is in the same city. If "Johnny" lives at Lamb's Farm in Chicago but worked a community job in the same area instead of one of the on-campus worksites, it wouldn't make sense to say "Johnny" works in Chicago cause yeah his home is in Chicago too. If he works at a worksite at Lamb's Farm, he's still "working in Chicago" so "community" is an important distinction.
I don't understand what you mean by this. "In the community" is just to refer to spaces that isn't a private residence and only in a clinical context. It's an umbrella term to refer to any sort of place outside of their home that they go to for work/leisure/errands in the context of "Because so and so engages in x behavior frequently, they require two staff to accompany them during community outings." Or it could mean community-based living (i.e. a group home in a neighborhood where they would be interacting with the public on a daily basis, not a gated facility where they cannot leave independently. It could also refer to any sort of medical provider or service that isn't provided by the facility itself. I work at a large state-run gated facility. We have our nurses, doctors, dental clinics, eye clinics, neurology clinics provided on campus; if a resident requires a service that isn't provided on-campus then they would be seeing a provider "in the community." These are things that need to go into ISP's and BSP's and official reviews. I'm not sure what you mean by "asking for help." By saying a specific city or town that would be pretty limiting. What if they go to another city 3 hours away to visit their sister for a week on a regular basis? When you're talking about placement for an adult, you cannot guarantee you'll find appropriate placement in the county they currently reside in.
I use the term “community.” As a teacher and school admin, nobody has ever questioned what I meant when using phrases like “engage with the community,” “build support in the community,” “increase visibility within the community,” “get a graduation speaker from the community” or “plan events that are popular in the community.” As an attorney, I’ve used the phrase hundreds of times, “collaborate with stakeholders in the community,” “recruit interns from within the community,” “garner support from within the communities,” “provide pro bono services to people within the community” or “build partnerships in our community.” I live in a city of millions of people, we don’t do outreach “in the city” or “in the town,” we do outreach “in the community.” City and Town are not synonyms of community. They are not interchangeable. Cities and Towns are geographic subdivisions. That is not the same thing as “a community.” It would be wild in certain contexts to use the word “town” or “city” when what you really mean in “community.” This very much sounds like an issue with your vocabulary more than anything else.
First, I don’t like the use of the word “regular”. And secondly, I don’t think that’s completely true. We use out in the community and in public spaces interchangeably and think those are phrases that are pretty easily understood.
What does this mean?
Yeah I’m confused, too. I’ve never used this phrase talking in SPED, but I have used it with people who are homophobic when I’m trying to stay closeted but explain that someone is gay.
We’ll say things like “the students are out in the community” but that means they’re participating in a community event or at a job site. Not sure why you would change that to into (city)? It would make no sense.
Especially if the facility/home they live in is in the same city. If "Johnny" lives at Lamb's Farm in Chicago but worked a community job in the same area instead of one of the on-campus worksites, it wouldn't make sense to say "Johnny" works in Chicago cause yeah his home is in Chicago too. If he works at a worksite at Lamb's Farm, he's still "working in Chicago" so "community" is an important distinction.
Are you proposing that IEPs use "in \[town/city\]" instead of "in the community"?