| National Council on Disability The National Council on Disability (NCD)
is an independent federal agency that makes
recommendations to the President and Congress on issues
affecting Americans with disabilities. NCD's purpose is
to "promote policies, programs, practices, and
procedures that guarantee equal opportunity for all
individuals with disabilities." Some resources on
the NCD website are:
- NCD Bulletin is a monthly
publication containing articles that cover topics
such as Supreme Court decisions regarding
employment cases involving the Americans with
Disabilities Act, employment issues of people
with disabilities, agency rules affecting people
with disabilities, and updates on disability
issues in Congress among others. The bulletins
cover 1997-present and they are browsable, but
not searchable.
- NCD Newsroom contains NCD
correspondence 1998-present; text and/or audio of
news releases or broadcasts from various
programs; articles about NCD; articles from NCD;
NCD publications 1984-present, and NCD
presentations, speeches and testimony 1998-present.
- NCD Federal Agencies
provides links to other Federal Agencies with
disability resources such as The Access Board,
The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department
of Labor as well as some of those resources such
as the Census Bureau Disability Statistics, the
Federal Communications Commission Disabilities
Issues and Section 508.
- NCD Resources contains links
to various resources for disability information
such as the ADA Technical Assistance Program, the
Guide to Disability Civil Rights Laws, the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 among
others.
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