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National Disability Rights Network Warns Cutting Critical Program Threatens Returning Troops and Children

President’s Budget Zero Funds Traumatic Brain Injury Programs

(Feb 4, 2008) In his budget released today, President Bush recommended eliminating the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) program, which includes funding for Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI) – a program essential to so many troops returning with disabilities acquired in combat.

“At a time when traumatic brain injuries account for a higher proportion of casualties than in other wars, it is unconscionable that the President is recommending absolutely no funding for a program so essential to this population,” said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). ...read entire release

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National Disability Rights Network Urges Congress to Pass ADA Restoration Act

Group calls on Congress to end unfair employment discrimination

(Jan 29, 2008) Today the House committee of primary jurisdiction -- the Committee on Education and Labor -- held its first hearing on the ADA Restoration Act of 2007. With 244 cosponsors – more than the prerequisite number for passage in the House – it is time to restore Congress’ original intent in passing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): to make this great nation’s promise of equality and freedom a reality for Americans with disabilities by protecting anyone who is treated less favorably because of a current, past, or perceived disability.

Over the past 17 years, the courts have narrowed the definition of disability so much that p eople with conditions like epilepsy, diabetes, HI V, cancer, and hearing loss who manage their disabilities with medication, prosthetics, or hearing aids are viewed as “too functional” to have a disability. While these same people may be denied a job or fired because an employer mistakenly believes they cannot perform the job, they are denied the ADA’s protection from employment discrimination. This creates a Catch-22 in which employers say a person is “too disabled” to do the job but not “disabled enough” to be protected by the law.

“While great progress has been made since passage of the ADA, bad court decisions over the years have eroded many of its essential protections,” said NDRN Executive Director Curt Decker. “We urge Congress to quickly pass this bill to restore the rights of all Americans to be free from unfair discrimination.”

• More information on the ADA Restoration Act from the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD)
• Take Action - Tell Your Member of Congress to Support ADA Restoration
• Co-Sponsors List

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The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the P&A/CAP network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States.

Through training and technical assistance, legal support, and legislative advocacy, the National Disability Rights Network works to create a society in which individuals with disabilities are afforded equality of opportunity and are able to fully participate by exercising choice and self-determination.

National Disability Rights Network members serve individuals with a wide range of disabilities – including, but not limited to, those with cognitive, mental, sensory, and physical disabilities – by guarding against abuse; advocating for basic rights; and ensuring accountability in health care, education, employment, housing, transportation, and within the juvenile and criminal justice systems.