ADA Wisconsin Partnership

Resource: Impact - Feature Issue on the ADA and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities

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Impact is a newsletter series published by the Institute on Community Integration.It includes strategies, research, and success stories in specific focus areas related to persons with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities. Their recent edition focuses on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Here is a link to the newsletter online. It's described as follows:

A newsletter issue marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In thisImpact, the ADA's promise for people with disabilities is seen as both having arrived, and still on the way. For many of the individuals who contributed to this issue, the ADA is a promise our nation has made that Americans with disabilities will have the same opportunity as Americans without disabilities to experience freedom, dignity, meaning, and inclusion. At the same time, a number of contributors talk about ways in which that promise, or the realization of that promise, is incomplete because it doesn't yet fully include everyone. Specifically, there are ways in which people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have often not reaped the full benefit of the ADA because many of the barriers they face in seeking equal opportunity are not yet fully addressed. By sharing this range of perspectives, thisImpactissue encourages readers to both pause to celebrate the anniversary of the ADA as a turning point in our nation's journey, and then continue traveling toward that horizon of full inclusion we have yet to reach.

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