Community service

Ask most people what a person with an intellectual or developmental disability contributes to their community, and the answer tends to focus in one direction: what the community gives to them. Support, accommodation, patience, care. All of that matters. But it tells only half the story, and it is the half that keeps people with IDD positioned as recipients rather than as neighbors who show up, lead, and give back just like anyone else. This year's MLK Season of Service told t