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September 26, 2023 | Jill Jacobs, Commissioner of ACL’s Administration on Disabilities
The independent living (IL) movement and the Rehab Act are inextricably linked. It was the IL movement that drove the signing of the law and the initial regulations to implement it, and the law that created ACL’s independent living programs. The Rehab Act is as powerful — and as important to disabled people and the independent living movement — as it was 50 years ago.
September 26, 2023 | Anjali Forber-Pratt, Director of ACL’s National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
In 1978, what is now the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) was created by an amendment to the Rehab Act. While our name has changed a few times in the years since, our basic purpose and reason for being has remained the same.
September 22, 2023 | Judy Simon, ACL National Nutritionist
Malnutrition Awareness WeekTM (September 18-22 this year) is designed to educate
September 14, 2023 | Laura Shannonhouse, Erika LeBlanc, Matthew Fullen
A Guest Post for Suicide Prevention Month
Performing the duties of ACL Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging 
July 26, 2023 | Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
Thirty-three years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law, establishing the civil right of people with disabilities to live, work, and fully participate in their communities. Rightly celebrated as a landmark victory in the disability rights movement, its passage was a long and hard-fought battle.
July 13, 2023 | Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
We need your help get the word out to people enrolled in Medicaid that they may have to take action to remain covered and that there are steps they can take if they lose Medicaid.

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