Lobbying & Grass Roots Activities For business organizations such as NFIB, the Senate deliberations represented a failure. “The reason we failed in the Senate,” said Wendy...
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Independent Living Movement
The concept—an advocacy and service organization governed by and for people with disabilities—is revolutionary at the time....
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Mobilizing the Disability Community
Paul Marchand, Director of the Governmental Affairs Office for the Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC), had founded CCD’s predecessor, CCDD, in the early 1970s to unite federal advocacy...
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§1193.23(b)(3)
(3) Working cooperatively with appropriate disability-related organizations; and
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1193.23(b)(3) (Advisory Guidance)
Paragraph (b)(3) Working Cooperatively with Appropriate Disability-Related Organizations 1. Working cooperatively with appropriate disability-related organizations is one of...
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1193.23(b)(4) (Advisory Guidance)
Paragraph (b)(4) Making Reasonable Efforts to Validate Unproven Access Solutions 1. Manufacturers must consider how they can make reasonable efforts to validate any unproven...
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§1193.23(b)(4)
(4) Making reasonable efforts to validate any unproven access solutions through testing with individuals with disabilities or with appropriate disability-related organizations that...
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American Foundation for the Blind® Support, Programs and Services
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) sees a world where people with vision loss have equal access and opportunities to excel at school, at work, and in their communities. Each...
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Disability Protest
The fast-growing power and reputation of ACCD positioned it take the lead in coordinating advocacy regarding the Section 504 regulations....
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Chapter 1: Laying the Foundation: Disability Policy & Activism, 1968-1988
LAYING THE FOUNDATION: DISABILITY POLICY & ACTIVISM, 1968–1988 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 raced through Congress. So much momentum drove the bill...
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Grass Roots Activism
Coalition Building: A Report on a Feasibility Study to Develop a National Model for Cross-Disability Communication and Cooperation appeared in 1978.70 The next year, Planning Effective Advocacy...
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About the Guide’s Author
June Isaacson Kailes (http://www.jik.com) operates a Disability Policy Consulting practice and is the Associate Director, Harris Family Center for Disability and Health Policy at...
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Conference Proceedings and Final Passage
Conference Proceedings and Final Passage On May 24, 1990, just two days after the House passed the ADA, the House requested a conference with the Senate to resolve all points of...
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Growth of the Disability Rights Movement
Growth of the Disability Rights Movement As Congress and HEW in Washington were writing civil rights language into federal laws and regulations, important work within the...
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The Protection & Advocacy (P&A) System
But only protection and advocacy agencies (P&As) are federally mandated to protect the basic human rights of people with disabilities....
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Drafting the ADA
give the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (ATBCB) the authority to remove barriers according to universal accessibility standards, and establish Protection and Advocacy...
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Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems... palsy is just one
"I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time," Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) "I'm like Shakira meets...
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Disability Advocacy: Reaching for an Accessible Future | Jessica Benham | TEDxUniversityofPittsburgh
Jessica is a strong advocate for Autistic rights and currently serves as the Director of Public Policy at the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy....
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The White House Signing Ceremony
The White House Signing Ceremony As early as May 1, 1990, President Bush told persons with disabilities that there would be “a proud bill-signing ceremony” for the Americans with...
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The Disability Conversation | Ben Myers | TEDxOStateU
Ben Myers talks about the importance of disability advocacy at the TEDxOStateU 2015 event at the Oklahoma State University campus on April 10, 2015....
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Our fight for disability rights and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann | TEDxMidAtlantic
For more than 30 years, Judith Heumann has been involved on the international front working with disabled people’s organizations and governments around the world to advance the human...
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5. Getting Changes Made
You made it through your visit, but you noticed some accessibility problems that need to be fixed. What do you do next?
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The Twin Pillars
The Twin Pillars Advocates of the ADA regularly declared that it was the most sweeping civil rights legislation in a quarter century: that is, since the Civil Rights Act of...
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AFB Breakthroughs 30-Second PSA (Accessible Version)
For nearly a century, AFB has led efforts to expand possibilities for people with vision loss. A new public service announcement (PSA) from the American Foundation for the Blind...
