By YAC Council Members The United States Census is looking to make changes that will undermine funding for individuals with disabilities. By changing how they collect disability data to a limited definition, less people will fit the definition, thus causing an underrepresentation of people with disabilities. By reducing how disabilities are counted in this way it would change the percentage of the population from 14% to 8%. This means that about 20 million people with disabilities would ...
By Elizabeth BrassellMs. Wheelchair Ohio 1st Runner Up and Young Adult Council (YAC) member The 2023 Annual Conference On Independent Living (NCIL) was in Washington D.C. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. I had such a great time at the NCIL Conference and am grateful to have been able to go. NCIL’s Executive Director, Theo Braddy opened the conference with some inspiring words regarding our theme “indivisible”. He also honored the late activist Judy Heumann. Judy Heumann’s wheelchair ...