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  2. National Disability Insurance Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The NDIS is independent of the Disability Support Pension and any state and territory disability programs, although NDIS navigation services may help individuals access these supports. The NDIS also exclusively funds disability supports, not healthcare-associated costs; these remain publicly funded under Medicare and state and territory ...

  3. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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    Parties agree to ensure that persons with disabilities are able to exercise their labour and trade union rights on an equal basis with others; to enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training; to promote employment ...

  4. ADA Amendments Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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    Disability. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–325, ADAAA) is an Act of Congress, effective January 1, 2009, that amended the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and other disability nondiscrimination laws at the Federal level of the United States. [1]

  5. Services and supports for people with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    Persons with developmental disabilities use individually planned and coordinated services and supports of their choosing (e.g., housing, employment, education, civil and human rights protection, health care) to live in and to participate in activities in the community." These services and supports are different in every state and there is ...

  6. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1958 – PL 85-926, which provided federal support for training teachers for children with intellectual disability, became law in the U.S. [44] 1958 – The Rehabilitation Gazette (formerly known as the Toomeyville Gazette), edited by Gini Laurie, was founded. It was an American grassroots publication which became an early voice for disability ...

  7. NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - Wikipedia

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    ndiscommission.gov.au. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, also referred to as the NDIS Commission, is an independent commission that was established to improve the quality and safety of services funded by the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The NDIS Commission regulates NDIS providers, provides national consistency, promotes ...

  8. How a disability rights advocate found points of agreement ...

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    The U.S. official said she met with entrepreneurs who had disabilities but also private business owners who are employing people with disabilities and some serving the needs of that group.

  9. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia

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    In the area of employment law, Syracuse University's Peter Blanck, Executive of the Burton Blatt Institute since it was founded in 2005, has offered detailed advice on the implementation of central concepts of the employment-rehabilitation laws. While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is the current base law, the Rehabilitation ...