CT Council on Developmental Disabilities Blog

It’s that time again!  The 5 year State Plan is up for comment.  See the public review instructions here and the link to the actual State Plan here.

Public Documents can be found here.

The Council is proud to announce we are co-sponsoring with CPAC  “Wrightslaw” with a special emphasis on CT special education regulations  on April 28th, 2011 in New Britain, CT. Please follow this link for registration information: http://www.cpacinc.org/upcoming-events/wrightslaw.
The flyer and and registration form for the CTCDD sponsored Conference on WrightsLaw are now available and can be downloaded below.

The 5 year State Plan is now available in English and in Spanish.  the CTCDD Spanish focus group questions are also now available.  Everything can be downloaded by clicking on the links below this post.

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Blind Woman’s Right to Use Technology to Take Professional Examinations

The NFB today applauded a federal appellate court ruling affirming the right of a blind California woman to use screen access technology to take professional examinations required for her to receive a license to practice law. The ruling, handed down yesterday by a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, upheld preliminary injunctions granted by a federal district court requiring the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) to provide electronic copies of its legal examinations to Stephanie Enyart so that she could read the questions with text-to-speech and magnification software. The NCBE had appealed the injunctions, arguing that the law did not require it to provide electronic copies of the examinations and that Enyart must choose from the menu of accommodations it was willing to provide.

Hello,

The CT Council on Developmental Disabilities is seeking your input toward developing our 5 Year State Plan.

The mission of the Council is to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities.

Attached are some questions that may assist you with responding, however, please add other issues that you think the Council may want to address.

You are welcome to post or fax your comments.

If faxing, please address your comments to the Council on Developmental Disabilities.

The fax number is 860-418-6003

Thank you

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