Join PATTAN's fourth annual AAC Talks web conference designed to provide practical ideas, strategies, and resources for making connections and engaging students with complex communication needs. This year’s theme, the power of language, is meant to inspire participants to consider […]
The Arc of Pennsylvania’s Annual Advocacy and Policy Conference This year’s theme is “Planning for Life Stages: Pathways to Success”! The conference is an opportunity for the disability community to come together and learn more about the critical stages of […]
Person-centered practice is grounded in the idea that people with disabilities are the decision makers in their own lives. Supporting people to make choices is a priority for person-centered systems. Too often people with disabilities are appointed guardians. When people […]
Michael Anderson will tell us about filing and winning an American with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit against the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to allow Direct Support Professionals to attend events without paying admission when accompanying a person with a disability […]
Perspectives of autistic adults about achieving (or trying to achieve) their best life. The PA Gathering: Critical Topics in Autism are virtual events featuring people with lived experience and other experts with an opportunity for audience Q&A. The outcomes of […]
Speaker: Domonique Howell The Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council invites you to join us for our Self Advocate Spotlight Series to hear from individuals with developmental disabilities and the remarkable things they are doing to make Pennsylvania a better place to […]
Understanding the complex associations between race and disability is essential to ensuring that all people can access their civil rights. This session will introduce the concept of intersectionality, with particular emphasis on the ways in which ableism and racism are […]
The Self Advocate Spotlight Series highlights how self advocates are demonstrating their own leadership skills, while also using their voices to mentor others. Featured for September: Mark Steidl Mark is founder of Self Advocacy Voices, a self advocate led organization […]
Supported decision making allows a person with disabilities to make their own decisions. It is an alternative to guardianship. Supported decision making is meant to be flexible in how it is applied from individual to individual and even how it […]
Longstanding discriminatory policies/practices related to education, housing, employment and healthcare have created economic inequality and financial instability for many, including people with disabilities and people of color. Using the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), 18% of people with disabilities in the […]