The Compass

“I’d like to connect you with an advocate who can help you enroll in home and community-based services,” we told the young person in need. This call seemed like many of our calls – someone with developmental disabilities needed help to find a place to live and basic supports. This caller had just left their… Read more A New Frontier: Healthcare access for a doubly marginalized minority

The Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health is dedicated to addressing the barriers of care faced by sexual and gender minority patients. For LGBTQ individuals with disabilities, these barriers are even more prominent. LGBTQ identity and disability are likely to intersect. The 2015 US Transgender Survey found that 39% of transgender adults have one or more… Read more Increasing Access to Healthcare for LGBTQ People with Disabilities

I started reading The Body is Not An Apology (TBINAA) by Sonya Renee Taylor, thinking it would be just like every other body positivity book; the author, though well-meaning, imploring their readers to accept who they are, while often neglecting to include the experiences of marginalized bodies. However, I read TBINAA feeling like I had… Read more The Body is Not an Apology: Includes All of Us- Not Just Able-Bodied Individuals

Caller:   My sister has twins who are turning twelve this summer. I’m making some calls to help her. She always gets me to do the calling because I teach special education, and she thinks I know better what to ask than she does. Truth is she’s as busy as I am, and both twins have… Read more Call Pathfinder

For these and other events visit our Community Calendar or follow us on social media. People with I/DD and Autism use dating apps too! Has this left you thinking how can I help someone when I don’t know anything about these apps? Or what do I need to understand in order to be supportive in a… Read more Upcoming Events – June 2022

Tennessee Disability Pathfinder offers a growing library of disability and sexuality resources available at TNPathfinder.org. Disability & Sexuality, a sensitive subject that often gets overlooked, which can lead to a lack of understanding, information, and support for individuals with disabilities. Pathfinder aims to share resources on the intersectionality between disability and sexuality. Click on our… Read more Resource Corner – Disability & Sexuality