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  2. American Association of People with Disabilities - Wikipedia

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    The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is an American non-profit organization which advocates for the legal rights of people with disabilities, based in Washington, D.C. [1] The mission of AAPD is to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities.

  3. List of disability organizations - Wikipedia

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    American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) (1876) – AAIDD are promoters for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) (1995) – a cross-disability organization that focuses on advocacy and services.

  4. American Association on Intellectual and Developmental ...

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    The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) is an American non-profit organization focusing on intellectual disability and related developmental disabilities. AAIDD has members in the United States and more than 50 other countries.

  5. Category : Disability organizations based in the United States

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    National Association for Continence; National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services; National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance; National Center on Disability and Journalism; National Council on Disability; National Disabled Women's Educational Equity Project; National Down Syndrome Congress; National Down ...

  6. What invisible disabilities are — and why they matter - AOL

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    Organizations like the Invisible Disabilities Association are working to make non-apparent disabilities more visible in society, through legislation, ID cards and even parking placards that may ...

  7. Arc of the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 1981 to 1992 that was changed to "Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States". The Arc assumed its present name in 1992, recognising the pejorative nature of the word "retarded". [12] [13] In the 1980s the Arc condemned the use of physical punishment to modify behavior in people with disabilities. [14]

  8. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1973 – The American Bar Association's Commission on the Mentally Disabled was established in 1973 to respond to the advocacy needs of persons with mental disabilities. After the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the ABA broadened the Commission's mission to serve all persons with disabilities and changed its name to the ...

  9. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Movement Perspective. Available online at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund website; O'Brien, Ruth, ed. Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford, 2004. ISBN 0-19-515687-0; Pletcher, David and Ashlee Russeau-Pletcher.

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