What is the arc in Medicaid?
The Arc is instrumental in defeating attempts by Congress to block grant and cap Medicaid, a change in the structure of the program that would have had great impact on the lives of people with disabilities.
What is the arc grant?
The Arc receives a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support the development and dissemination of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Resource and Materials Guide. The Arc is a leader among national disability groups to advocate for the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is the purpose of the arc?
The Arc helps create the Supported Employment program within the Rehabilitation Act. The Arc successfully pushes Congress to add disability as a protected class under the Fair Housing Act. The Arc helps pass legislation to expand education services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
What does the arc do?
The Arc intensifies its advocacy for research and asks Congress for full support for an International Research Plan.
When did the Arc meet?
Parent groups throughout the country meet in Minneapolis, MN in 1950 to organize The Arc (originally the National Association of Parents and Friends of Retarded Children).
Why is the arc important?
The Arc helps expose the link between lead poisoning and harmful effects in infants and children.
What is the history of living with a disability?
The history of living with a disability in the United States has largely been one of discrimination, segregation, and exclusion from education, work, housing, and even from routine daily activities. Fortunately, today people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) have the same basic legal, civil, and human rights as other citizens.
What is the civil rights of people with disabilities?
This civil rights law seeks to eliminate discrimination against people based on their disabilities in employment, state and local government services, privately operated public accommodations (hotels, ...
What is the arc?
The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
What is the CCD rights task force?
The CCD Rights Task Force advocates on a wide variety of matters involving the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
Why does disability matter?
Everyone deserves to be included and live a full life in their community — accessing the same public spaces, housing opportunities, education, and work as anyone else. Many people with I/DD experience multiple risk factors for human and civil rights violations.
What is the purpose of the arc?
The Arc works to promote and protect hard-won civil rights protections. We pull up a seat at the table at every opportunity where implementation or enforcement of civil rights laws comes under attack, revision, or improvement.
Is disability a human right?
Disability rights are human rights. Everyone deserves to be included and live a full life in their community — accessing the same public spaces, housing opportunities, education, and work as anyone else. Many people with I/DD experience multiple risk factors for human and civil rights violations. We emphasize that all are entitled to human and civil rights regardless of age; gender; race/ethnicity; sexual orientation; cultural, linguistic, geographic, and spiritual diversity; economic status; severity of disability; intensity of needed supports; and other factors that expose them to increased risk of rights violations.
Talk About Sexual Violence: Self-Advocate Focus Group Findings
This seven-minute video highlights key findings from focus groups held with individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who were asked about their thoughts on what doctors, nurses, and other health care providers can do better when talking to them about sexual violence.
Why Talk About Sexual Violence? Medical Professional Focus Group Findings
This eight-minute video highlights key findings from focus groups held with medical professionals who were asked about how they address or talk about sexual violence with their patients with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Kligler v. Healy
Amicus brief addressing the harms physician-assisted suicide poses to people with disabilities.
2022 Policy & Advocacy Kickoff Webinar
In this webinar, you will learn about The Arc’s 2022 policy priorities, upcoming resources, and ways to get involved.
When was the arc founded?
The Arc was founded in 1950 by parents who believed their children with I/DD deserved more – to be included in their communities and to pursue fulfillment and happiness just like everyone else. Ever since then, The Arc has continued to grow and evolve along with the changing needs and issues people with disabilities and their families face — and has played a pivotal role in changing the public perception of disability.
What is the arc?
The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
What is intellectual disability?
Intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child.
How many people have intellectual disabilities?
Intellectual disability is one of the most common developmental disability. It is estimated that seven to eight million people in the United States have an intellectual disability, which means that 1 in 10 families are affected. ( 1) More than 425,000 children (ages 3-21) have some level of intellectual disability and receive special education services in public school under this category in IDEA, the nation’s special education law. ( 2) In fact, 7% of the children who need special education have some form of intellectual disability. ( 3)
What is supplementary aids and services?
This includes making accommodations appropriate to the needs of the student. It also includes providing what IDEA calls “supplementary aids and services.” Supplementary aids and services are supports that may include instruction, personnel, equipment, or other accommodations that enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is the importance of general education for students with intellectual disabilities?
General education. It’s important that students with intellectual disabilities be involved in, and make progress in, the general education curriculum.
What age does the idea require special education?
Help for School-Aged Children. Just as IDEA requires that early intervention be made available to babies and toddlers with disabilities, it requires that special education and related services be made available free of charge to every eligible child with a disability, including preschoolers (ages 3-21).
What is early intervention?
Early intervention is a system of services designed to help infants and toddlers with disabilities (until their 3rd birthday) and their families. It’s mandated by IDEA. Staff work with the child’s family to develop what is known as an Individualized Family Services Plan, or IFSP. The IFSP will describe the child’s unique needs as well as the services he or she will receive to address those needs. The IFSP will also emphasize the unique needs of the family, so that parents and other family members will know how to help their young child with intellectual disability. Early intervention services may be provided on a sliding-fee basis, meaning that the costs to the family will depend upon their income.
When was Rosa's Law signed into law?
Until Rosa’s Law was signed into law by President Obama in October 2010, IDEA used the term “mental retardation” instead of “intellectual disability.”. Rosa’s Law changed the term to be used in future to “intellectual disability.”. The definition itself, however, did not change.
ISSUE
Knowledge about biomedical causes of disability, preventive health care options, and the consequence of exposure to environmental hazards is increasing rapidly, yet practical application of this information is lacking.
POSITION
The Nation must investigate the causes, avoid those that are preventable, and limit the negative effects of conditions that cause I/DD through prevention programs, policies, and practices which must include: