The Importance of Supports

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"If we invested a mere one-tenth of the amount of money that we currently pour into causation into empowering Autistic people to communicate, that young man and hundreds of thousands more like him would be able to communicate their needs to us today. I am not here today to speak for every Autistic person – that’s impossible. What I am here for is to argue for every Autistic person to have the same opportunity to communicate that I have come to enjoy thanks to the support that I have been lucky enough to receive in my life." Ari Ne'eman

Meet the Members of the 2013 National Council on Disability

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The National Council on Disability works to further equal opportunity, self-sufficiency, independent living, inclusion and full integration of people with disabilities into the civic, social, and economic fabric of American life.

I Am Disabled and I Am Proud

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‎"Polite society often tells us that we need to take the 'dis' out of disability, but maybe... just maybe, we should spend some time putting it back in. Take the "dis" out of disability and you remove the core of what has shaped my life. Disability puts the "D" in diversity, but in order to make that a real difference we've got to own that spot. It took me 35 years to respect and honor that truth. Others shouldn't have to wait that long..." Lawrence Carter-Long

Advocacy Groups Call for Autistic Teen’s Killers to Be Charged With Hate Crime

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Letter from National Council on Disability (NCD) to the President Following Newtown Tragedy

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December 20, 2012 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania

Burton Blatt Institute chairman to testify before National Council on Disability on future of disability law and policy

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NCD is an independent federal agency that makes recommendations to

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