The DD News Blog

The following is a tribute from VOR , a Voice Of Reason, to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last week at the age of eight...

Saint Lucy December 6, 2019 This is from Together For Choice ( TFC) , a national advocacy organization for people with  intellectual a...

This is a note from Becky Altschuler, another resourceful parent who is creating a program for adults who are not candidates for vocatio...

This is what happens when you google yourself. You discover things you wrote or commented on years ago that you have completely forgotten ...

Read and listen to a Michigan Radio (NPR) interview , “People with disabilities at heart of new Saline neighborhood” by Doug Tribou, 1/29/...

This is from the New York State Assembly minority task force report on the Olmstead Decision and its impact on the state's developmen...

4,902,835 with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) in USA 1,389,611 supported in an out-of-home residential setting ...

According to an article in the Illinois Herald-News by Lauren Leone-Cross, 4/4/16, leaders from two Illinois Centers for Independent Livi...

Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in State and local government ...

A short preview of parents of developmentally disabled adults discussing their fears for their children's future. You can watch the fu...

Washington State Re sidential H abilitation Centers are part of the full range of services necessary to serve people with developmental di...

From the ACCSES Weekly Windup for October 14, 2015: At MARO, we believe in establishing raised expectations - that all working-age...

This is a letter from the Ohio Congressional delegation to CMS urging flexibility and consideration of the intense needs of people with i...

From the VOR Website :   August 2015 Without question, the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision requires that community placement no...

Together for Choice October 21 - 23, 2015 Misericordia 6300 N. Ridge Chicago, IL 60660 Wednesday, October 21, Loyola University, Water Tow...

In Memory of Lewis, the garden store cat The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a rule in January 2014 that...