Module Title: Building Friendships and Community This document highlights some of the most important parts of your completed module. Summary People with disabilities have experienced abuse, discrimination, and worse. Often they find they are deprived of ordinary opportunities to be part of community life and to form friendships. However, the people we support can make great citizens and form wonderful friendships and loving partnerships. Assumptions About Community and Friendships We often make assumptions and develop our own ideas about what is best and what community and friendships should mean for the people we support. In some instances we have been so keen to run away from anything that resembled the institution and segregation that we neglected to think about or ask what people with