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We want to hear from North Carolina!
The Council is developing its next Five Year State Plan.
If you live in North Carolina and are a person with a disability, family member of a person with a disability, a professional service provider or a citizen concerned about disability issues, we want your input! By listening to you, we’ll learn what is working and where strategic change can further strengthen services and supports and the communities in which people live. The survey is available through October 15, 2010. We ask that you share this opportunity with others. Thank you.
Call 919-420-7901 or 1800-357-6716 (TTY) to request an alternate format of the survey or for assistance completing the survey.
Individuals with Developmental Disabilities- pdf / doc
Family Survey- pdf / doc
Providers, LME, Other- pdf / doc
COUNCIL RECEIVES TWO NATIONAL AWARDS FOR COMMUNICATIONS
The North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities has been honored for two
communications accomplishments in the 2010 national Communicator Awards Competition.
A brochure that was developed on People First language, giving first hand accounts of how hurtful demeaning terms can be to people with disabilities, won a silver award of distinction in the publications category. The informational video “Self-Determination Is…,” which addressed the growing calls for more decision-making authority over their lives by people with disabilities, was honored with a silver award of distinction for video. Both communications projects were produced for the Council by The Wallace Group. -more-
What is the North Carolina Council on
Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD)?
Dr. Robert J. (Bob) Rickelman, Chairman of the
North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
"We basically get federal funding to put out in grants to help people with developmental disabilities and their family members in a large variety of ways. We can't directly fund people who have different needs, and we do get calls quite a bit, but we're looking more at the state level, and the national level, and how we can influence policy, and how we can increase community capacity how we can influence legislators to make rules that are in tune with people with developmental disabilities, and their families, and the needs that those folks have."
Holly Riddle, Executive Director of the North
Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
"The Council is a microcosm of the community of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Sixty percent of its membership by law are people with developmental disabilities and their families. The other 40 percent are policymakers, legislators, service providers, local management entities. Together the Council, a gubernatorially appointed body, represents the broader stakeholder community that's North Carolina. We're charged with advancing systems change, advocacy, and capacity building. I oftentimes say that, 'We're a little like a Johnny Appleseed.' The Council's job is to spot innovation in the field and to introduce it into soil that nurtures it and can sustain it."
| Defining Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disability I/DD |
| People First Language Used Here Language that addresses the individual before the disability is a reflection of basic respect. |


