Tennessee is home to the very first statewide Family Voices chapter, a fact that fills the Coalition with great pride; however, Family Voices future is dimming. The US Congress has failed in repeated attempts to extend funding to save Family Voice’s Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs).
On behalf of the National Council on Disability (NCD), it is my pleasure to invite you to attend NCD’s next quarterly meeting, which will take place at the Holiday Inn Express, 920 Broadway, Nashville, TN, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, October 26, 2009, and ending at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.
There have been quite a few developments in ADA and related issues the past several weeks so we wanted to bring many of them together in one place for easy reference. These developments include lawsuits, advisories, events, and the release of Proposed Regulations implementing the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.
Last year President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law. It was the first major reform of the ADA since it's passage in 1990 and a critical element was the expansion of the definition of disability so that more people would be protected by its provisions. However, that was just the first step toward improving the ADA's protections.
John Shouse, a member of the Autism Society of Middle Tennessee and long-time disability advocate, is co-author of a new book titled: The Autism Checklist. His co-author is Paula Kluth, Ph.D., a consultant, teacher, advocate, and scholar who works with teachers and families of children with disabilities.
The Tennessee Disability Coalition is pleased to announce our
semi-annual round of discretionary grants, awarded in May and November
each year. The Application with Guidelines for November 2009 is now
available at our website.
Purpose
In keeping with the mission of the Coalition to help build a society
that includes and values people with disabilities, the purpose of the
grants is to build capacity in the disability community to serve
individuals with disabilities and their families.
School is back in session, temperatures are dropping, and many are looking forward to football in just a few weeks. It must be Fall in Tennessee and with it the Fall issue of Project BRAIN's quarterly newsletter is hot off the press. It includes stories about:
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Tennessee is home to the very first statewide Family Voices chapter, a fact that fills the Coalition with great pride; however, Family Voices future is dimming. The US Congress has failed in repeated attempts to extend funding to save Family Voice’s Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs). 
On behalf of the
Last year President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law. It was the first major reform of the ADA since it's passage in 1990 and a critical element was the expansion of the definition of disability so that more people would be protected by its provisions. However, that was just the first step toward improving the ADA's protections.
John Shouse, a member of the Autism Society of Middle Tennessee and long-time disability advocate, is co-author of a new book titled: The Autism Checklist. His co-author is Paula Kluth, Ph.D., a consultant, teacher, advocate, and scholar who works with teachers and families of children with disabilities. 
School is back in session, temperatures are dropping, and many are looking forward to football in just a few weeks. It must be Fall in Tennessee and with it the Fall issue of Project BRAIN's quarterly newsletter is hot off the press. It includes stories about:
