News Release
NCD #00-285
February 16, 2000
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability to Conduct Community
Briefing on Critical Issues for People with Disabilities in Orlando,
Florida
WASHINGTON--The National Council on Disability (NCD)
will conduct a community briefing on critical issues for people
with disabilities on Monday, February 28, 2000, from 4:00 p.m. until
6:00 p.m., at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Orlando, 60 South Ivanhoe
Boulevard, Orlando, Florida. A reception for those participating
will take place from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m., at the same location.
During the briefing, NCD will present information
on NCD's "Unequal Protection Under Law" series of independent analyses
of federal civil rights enforcement for Americans with disabilities.
This will include information about NCD's report, Back
to School on Civil Rights, which evaluates nearly two and
a half decades of federal enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA).
Also included will be information about the findings
and recommendations in NCD's report Lift
Every Voice: Modernizing Disability Policies and Programs to Serve
a Diverse Nation, which is intended to spark dialogue about
how to learn from our experiences in the past several years and
how to bring the federal disability policy agenda to a new level
of inclusiveness and effectiveness, resulting in better outcomes
for people with disabilities from diverse cultural backgrounds and
their families.
Information will also be included on NCD's report
From Privileges to
Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves,
which is based on the testimony of people with psychiatric disabilities
that 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.
Finally, you will hear about NCD's upcoming report
that will look at the enforcement and implementation of the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was originally proposed and drafted
by NCD.
Our findings and recommendations from these reports
are of increasing significance in light of the upcoming U.S. Supreme
Court cases regarding ADA.
NCD is an independent federal agency charged with
advising the President and Congress on public policy affecting people
with disabilities. It is currently coordinating a multi-year study
on the implementation and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities
Act and other civil rights laws.
For more information, contact Mark S. Quigley at 202-272-2004
or visit NCD's award-winning Web site (http://www.ncd.gov).
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