Disability Pride Month is a time to recognize the history, achievements, experiences, and struggles of people with disabilities. It affirms that disability is a natural and valuable part of human diversity—not a deficit or condition to be fixed. More than 1 in 4 adults in the United States—over 70 million people—have a disability. This month […]
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By: Mike Nagel, Program Associate
Eight members of Congress have re-introduced three bipartisan bills to make improvements to the Stephen J. Beck, Jr. Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act....
By: Amie Lulinski, PhD, FAAIDD, Director, Research and Evaluation
Data comes in a variety of forms: charts, graphs, spreadsheets, reports, articles. No matter the shape it takes, data tells a story...
By: Nicole Jorwic, Director of Rights Policy, The Arc of the United States, and oldest of four.
There is a saying that goes, “the two greatest gifts that a parent can give a child are roots and ...
Ginger Pottenger has been a member of The Arc – at either the local, state, or national level – since the early 1970s. She lives in Arizona, near her daughters, Kandi and Kristi.
How did you ge...
By Amy Goodman, M.A.
Autism is not something to be feared, nor is it solely defined by medical jargon or categories. It needs to be accepted as the way an individual thinks, feels, and expresses th...
By Amy Goodman, Co-Director of the Autism NOW Center, at The Arc of the United States
In the recent past, Jerry Seinfeld had mentioned that he might be on the autism spectrum and then he had to bac...
April is national Autism Awareness Month and The Arc and the Autism NOW National Autism Resource & Information Center are working to empower people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) with the in...
The Arc Plans for a National Day Out Event for Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
March is national Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. The Arc invites you to join us on March 29 in...
Ricardo Thornton always had big hopes and dreams. But as is too often the case with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), they seemed almost impossible to achieve. Fourteen ...
