The AbleLight Empowerment Blog focuses on helping self-advocates and parents navigate the challenges faced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Today we flip the script and look at life from a different perspective.
Congress has a historic opportunity to help people with disabilities through $150 million in enhanced HCBS funding. Contact your member of Congress today and advocate for people with disabilities and the heroes who care for them.
Everyone can be a self-advocate, but for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, becoming a self-advocate is even more important.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was a game changer for people with disabilities. On July 26 we celebrate the 31st Anniversary of the ADA being signed into law.
After many months of the coronavirus pandemic, safe and effective vaccines are now becoming available. Learn how you can help ensure people with disabilities and direct support professionals are given priority for vaccine distribution.
We hear the term “self-advocate” a lot, but what does it really mean to be a self-advocate?
Voting is at the heart of who we are as Americans and no citizen should be left out of the process because of a disability. Here are three of the most basic and fundamental rights as a voter with a disability.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities—and essential workers who support them—need your voice now more than ever.
Those that were born after July 26, 1990 have grown up in a world knowing that equal rights regarding disabilities is a guarantee, not just a promise.
Self-advocacy is a term thrown out there a lot in the disability space. But what does it actually mean to be a self-advocate? At its most basic level, being a self-advocate means you have a voice of your own, and you use it.
