Information and Technical Assistance Center (ITACC)
This resource provides suggestions and recommendations to help inform an inclusive approach to DD Council communications. Included are preferred terms for select groups while understanding there may not always be…
Strengthening Language Access: Including People and Expanding Access through Accessible Language Strategies materials Strengthening Language Access video recording
Members of the ITACC Diversity Committee share information and resources to improve messaging, show respect, and reinforce strength-based messaging principles. Equitable Language Recording
This is the power point presentation to accompany the resource “Equitable Language for Inclusive Communication”. Click here to download the Equitable Language: Affirming People through Language presentation.
This resource provides a review of DD Act definitions, information about defining organizational culture, linguistic competence, equity in the developmental disabilities “space”, intersectionality, and an overview about reporting cultural diversity…
Information on promising and evidence-based practices to improve data collection efforts using culturally sensitive methods for State plan projects and activities supported by a Council on Developmental Disabilities.
This resource is supported through ACL/AoD/OIDD’s contract (#HHSP233201600068C) with NACDD to provide technical assistance to the national network of DD Councils. Top 10 Promising Practices on Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural…
Participants will: 1. Engage in a brief self‐assessment of individual cultural competence. 2. Discuss and list the extent to which cultural and linguistic competence are specifically stated in Councils’: -Policies -Structures -Practices -Behaviors -Attitudes 3.Select and discuss road signs that describe where their respective Councils are advancing cultural and linguistic competence. Click to…
1. Differentiate equity from diversity and inclusion. 2. Describe the implications of equity in the IDD space. Has your Council defined equity and what it means for intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? Which one – diversity, equity, or inclusion? Click to open Advancing Equity
DICLC Webinar Series Developing a Language Assistance and Implementation Plan’ What DD Councils Should Know Participants will: 1. Identify federal legal mandates for language access and implementation that affect individuals…