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News Advisory
Speaker Update
NCD
#05–485
April 13, 2005
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability Announces Additional Speakers for Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities
WASHINGTON--The National Council
on Disability (NCD) will release its report Saving Lives: Including
People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning at a news conference
at 10:00 a.m. on April 15, 2005, at the National Press Club, 529
14th Street, NW, Washington, DC.
The report provides an overview for the Federal Government
to build a solid and resilient infrastructure that should enable
the government to include the diverse populations of people with
disabilities in emergency preparedness, disaster relief, and homeland
security programs. This infrastructure would incorporate technology,
physical, program, and communication access. It would also include
procurement and emergency programs and services.
Speakers include:
Young Woo Kang, Ph.D., Member, NCD
Martin Gould, Ed.D., Senior Research Specialist, NCD
Olegario D. Cantos VII, Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Rights Division, U.S.
Department of Justice
Cheryl Heppner, Executive Director, Northern Virginia
Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Persons
Robert D. Hynes, Chair, Arlington Virginia Disability
Advisory Commission
Cheryl J. King, Esq., Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Office, Consumer
and Governmental Affairs
Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
Katie Savage, Winning plaintiff in the precedent
setting emergency evacuation case Katie Savage
v. City Place Mall(Decision, December 28, 2004, Civil Action No.
240306, Circuit Court, Montgomery County, Maryland)
Hilary Styron, Emergency Preparedness Initiative
Program Officer, National Organization on Disability
Daniel W. Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights
and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
For more information, contact Mark Quigley or Martin
Gould at 202-272-2004 or 202-272-2074 TTY.
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