ADVOCACY
Programs and resources promoting, supporting and training self-advocacy/advocacy for people with disabilities and families. For a complete list of Institute on Disabilities programs, visit the Programs page. If you know the name of the program, try the "Quick Links to Programs" function at the top right section of every page.
- Academy for Adult Learning
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Selected individuals with intellectual disabilities spend four semesters on Temple University's main campus experiencing college life. - Leadership Development
SUMMARY +/- Teaching people with disabilities, family members, and students to assume leadership roles in their communities and at the local, state, and national levels.- C2P2 - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Training individuals with disabilities, parents of young children with disabilities, and university graduate students, providing up-to-date information, leadership training, and skill building. - C2P2 EI - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking for Children of Families in Early Intervention
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Offering information about local, state and national issues that affect young children with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on early intervention issues. - C2P2 Inclusion - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking for Inclusive Education
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Parents and educators form teams that help create schools which include ALL children. - C2P2 EEL - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking, Emerging and Established Leaders
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Free training for individuals with disabilities, ages 18-30, who want to develop leadership skills. - Families First
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Empowerment training on the basics of early intervention—teaching about early intervention system, meeting with other families, becoming an equal member in your child's Individual Education Plan. - Supported Leadership
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Promoting and encouraging people with intellectual disabilities to become active, contributing and valued members of boards and committees throughout Pennsylvania. - The Pennsylvania Training Partnership for People with Disabilities and Families
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION The Partnership makes available training and technical assistance, developed and provided by people with disabilities and families.
- C2P2 - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking
- Criminal Justice
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing information, training and products which focus on the interaction between the criminal justice system and people with disabilities. - Augmentative & Alternative Communication
SUMMARY +/- Providing training and technical assistance to individuals with significant speech disabilities who use augmentative or alternative communication.- ACES - Augmentative Communication and Empowerment Supports
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Year-long augmentative communication and empowerment program designed to increase the communication effectiveness of adults with significant speech disabilities. - ACOLUG - Augmentative Communication Online Users' Group
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Internet listserv allowing users of augmentative communication (AAC) to communicate with each other and with AAC. - AAC-RERC - Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Communication Enhancement
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Research, development and training, and seeking to improve technologies for individuals who rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies.
- ACES - Augmentative Communication and Empowerment Supports
- IM4Q: Independent Monitoring for Quality
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Collecting and disseminating information that might help improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. - Emergency Preparedness
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing information and services to make an impact on the safety and well-being of individuals with disabilities, families and support system. - Technical Assistance
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing technical assistance at the local, state, and international levels to individuals, agencies, and government entities, focusing on increasing the independent productivity and inclusion of all people with developmental disabilities.
