Media Advisory
NCD #00-281
January 14, 2000
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability To Release Report
on People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities in Orlando, Florida
WASHINGTON--The National Council on Disability (NCD)
will release its report From Privileges to Rights: People Labeled
with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves on Thursday,
January 20, 2000, at the National Association of Protection and
Advocacy Systems' Winter Conference 2000, at the Sheraton Safari
Hotel, 12205 Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando, Florida.
From Privileges to Rights is based on the testimony
of people with psychiatric disabilities who testified at an NCD
hearing in Albany, New York, in 1998. The compelling testimony has
led NCD to the distressing and inescapable conclusion that people
labeled with psychiatric disabilities are routinely deprived of
their rights as citizens and human beings.
All the recommendations in this report emphasize the
basic principle that people with psychiatric disabilities, are,
first and foremost, citizens who have the right to expect that they
will be treated according to the principles of law that apply to
all other citizens.
NCD is an independent federal agency currently coordinating
a multi-year study for the President and Congress on the implementation
and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other
civil rights laws.
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