The NHCDD would like to thank all of the stakeholders and community members who participated in the development of our next five-year plan. Your input has been very valuable in helping the DD Council determine the direction of our work in advocating and supporting fully inclusive community living for all...
Disability RAPP
Edition
New Resources From DRC-NH
Special Education & COVID-19: drcnh.org/issue-areas/childrens-issues/education/special-education-covid-19
Transition Planning: drcnh.org/issue-areas/childrens-issues/education/transition-planning
Special Education Rights: drcnh.org/issue-areas/childrens-issues/education
Spring 2021: Disability in The Time of COVID-19
Focusing on Health Care and Higher Education
In this issue we look at how the pandemic has impacted people with disabilities through the lens of assistive technology, health care, and higher education. We explore how COVID-19 has both challenged the disability community and hopefully inspired lasting innovations....
Lighting the Fire of Innovation
By Therese Willkomm, Ph.D.
Housed within the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, Assistive Technology in New Hampshire (ATinNH) has two major activity areas: (1) training, education, and outreach and (2) assistive technology services which include equipment demonstrations, loans, and refurbishing....
What I’ve Learned as A Disabled Person from the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Andrew Pulrang
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic seems a little bit closer now, and the final shape it will probably take is a little bit easier to see.What’s going to be much less clear for years to come is exactly what lessons we have learned, or should be learning from this whole experience.
One such lesson is...
Your Communication Rights in Health Care Settings
If you are a patient in a hospital or other health care setting, you have communication and other civil rights under Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Hospitals and other health care facilities...
Disability Discrimination: The COVID-19 Health Care Reality
By Stephanie Patrick
Prior to the start of the pandemic in March 2020, people with disabilities faced discrimination by policy makers and health care providers who failed to recognize the fullness of their lives and the realities of their health care needs. This discrimination has become more acute due to the strains COVID-19...
Adults with Disabilities Need Accessible and Responsive Telehealth Care
by Evan England and Kimberly Phillips, Ph.D.
The December 2020 issue of Disability in Focus from the New Hampshire Disability & Public Health Project shows that in New England, adults with disabilities are more likely than adults
without disabilities to use telehealth for remote health care visits.
Four out of five adults with and without disabilities...
Navigating a Learning Disability in a Pandemic
By Sophie Kellam
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I was finishing my senior year of college and had to switch to remote classes. I have a Non-verbal Learning Disability (NVLD) which means that sometimes I have trouble reading social cues or finishing in-class activities that are time sensitive. I also have Attention Deficit...
Staying Healthy at Home with Telehealth
By Isadora Rodriguez-Legendre
COVID-19 has contributed to a significant shift in our health care system. It is clear that virtual care or telehealth is necessary to ensure that people stay healthy and safe at home. According to a recent study by the NH Disability and Public Health Project, the use of telehealth has increased in the last...
Remote Higher Education 4 All
By Ashley Woodbury
In 2020, the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) received a $2.5 dollar grant to improve access to post-secondary education for young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). In line with this goal, and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOD has been offering a...
Institute on Disability/UCED UNH
Promoting Full Access, Equal Opportunities, and Participation for All
The IOD promotes full access, equal opportunities, and participation for all persons by strengthening communities and advancing policy and systems change, promising practices, education, and research.Visit us at iod.unh.eduUpcoming Trainings and Events
Through leadership training and professional development opportunities...
New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities
Virginia BowdenAdvocacy AwardTammy Mills
For extraordinary leadership and commitment to dignity, equal rights, and full participation of people with disabilities in New Hampshire
———Outstanding Legislator of the YearSenator D’Allesandro, Senator Fuller Clark & Representative Butler
Presented to policy makers who have made significant contributions to improving the quality of life for people with disabilities
———Smile AwardFriends of White Park Trust
Presented...
Disability Rights Center – NH
Disability Rights Center-NH (DRC-NH) recently filed two class action lawsuits. In the first suit we joined the ACLU of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Legal Assistance, the national advocacy group Children’s Rights, and the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in challenging New Hampshire’s unlawful...
Disability Rights Center-NH
DRC-NH is dedicated to eliminating barriers for people with disabilities across the state. Contact us to schedule a free consultation on a disability discrimination issue with an experienced attorney.
Special Education and COVID-19
Children with disabilities are among the most vulnerable students in the COVID-19 public health crisis. As students with disabilities return to school after missing significant instructional time and related services in the spring and summer, schools must develop...
NH Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Council is dedicated to dignity, full rights of citizenship, cultural diversity, equal opportunity, and full participation for all NH citizens with developmental disabilities.
“All people have a right to assembly, and a right to support the causes they care about. As a disabled person, it is important for me to support disability-related causes, but also to support equally important calls for liberation such as the Black Lives Matter movement. We are stronger when we lift each...
Universal Design for Learning
By Susan ShapiroEducational Settings and the ADA
When I was nine years old, my mother introduced me to the Killilea family who lived in a large, old house with Newfoundland dogs, just like our family. Mr. Killilea and my grandfather were dear, old friends. Their daughter, Karen, was the first person I’d met who used a wheelchair. The Killilea...
In Memoriam
Peter Fleming, Vice Chair and Policy Committee Co-Chair of the NH Council for Developmental Disabilities; member of
Self Advocates Leading Together; Advocate NH; Knights of Columbus; Best Buddies International; Special Olympics athlete, coach, and board member; and founding member of the NH Chapter...