In May and June 2019, the Commission on Law and Aging convened advocates, experts, and policymakers in disabilities and aging to discuss decision supports for individuals across the age spectrum and to explore areas of consensus about supporting decision-making for all adults. Participants in the two forums, held in Washington, DC, agreed on some points…
DetailsThe Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) was originally enacted in 1975 as the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act. The purpose of the IDEIA is to “provide a free appropriate public education” to children with disabilities and to prepare them for further education, employment, and full participation in society. Under the IDEIA, all…
Supported decision-making (SDM) for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD)2 has been part of legal scholarly discourse for more than a decade,3 but has, at least in the United States, entered the “real world” of practice only recently…
Most of us enjoy and exercise the right of legal capacity every day, neither thinking about it, or naming the right as such. We rent or own our apartments or houses, shop in person or online, use cash machines, make doctor’s or dentist’s appointments, enjoy (most of the time, at least) our family arrangements with…
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This toolkit is about the Americans with Disabilities Act, or “the ADA” for short. The ADA is a law in the United States that says people with disabilities have rights. This toolkit will help answer these questions: What is the ADA, and why was it made? Why is the ADA important? What are my rights…