Advocacy Resources for People with Disabilities

American Disability Association
www.adanet.org
To promote awareness of disability culture by building bridges of understanding among all people.

Disabled in Action
www.disabledinaction.org
We are a civil rights organization committed to ending discrimination against people with disabilities — all disabilities.

Freedom Disability
www.freedomdisability.com
Free Social Security disability advocates.

State Independent Living Centers
www.ilru.org
State Independent Living Centers are a consumer?controlled, community?based, cross?disability, nonresidential private nonprofit agencies that are designed and operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities and provides an array of independent living services.

TASH
www.tash.org
TASH advocates for human rights and inclusion for people with significant disabilities and support needs – those most vulnerable to segregation, abuse, neglect and institutionalization.

The American Association of People with Disabilities
www.aapd.com
The country's largest cross-disability membership organization, organizes the disability community to be a powerful voice for change – politically, economically, and socially.

The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
www.aucd.org
his is a membership organization that supports and promotes a national network of university-based interdisciplinary programs.A network of interdisciplinary centers advancing policy and practice for and with individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families, and communities.

Developmental Disabilities

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
www.aamr.org
Since 1876, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has been providing worldwide leadership in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Arc
www.thearc.org
We are the largest national community-based organization advocating for and serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network
www.autisticadvocacy.org
ASAN seeks to organize the community of Autistic adults and youth to have our voices heard in the national conversation about us.

Autism Speaks
www.autismspeaks.org
The nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.