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The American Dental Association (ADA) is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 161,000 members. Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago , [ 8 ] the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association.
Experts believe there would be no ADA had there not first been Section 504. After its success with Section 504, ACCD mounted projects to train individuals with disabilities about their new rights and to educate officials on their new responsibilities. Accessible public transportation was a major focus of ACCD in 1978.
Since black dentists were still denied membership in such organizations as the American Dental Association, [1] and since dentists felt sidelined in the African-American National Medical Association (NMA), [2] Ferguson tried again in 1913, forming with a total of 29 black dentists the Tri-State Dental Association. The rapid expansion of this ...
The Association of Drainage Authorities (ADA) is a membership body for internal drainage boards and other stakeholders in water level management in the United Kingdom. ADA obtains and disseminates information on matters of importance and interest to members, and provides assistance on technical and administrative problems.
The American Board of Prosthodontics certifies individuals who have demonstrated special knowledge and skills in prosthodontics. The Prosthodontic Forum represents 19 member organizations, attempting to provide a unified voice and a means of exchanging ideas, incentives and information between prosthodontically oriented organizations.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a United States-based nonprofit that seeks to educate the public about diabetes and to help those affected by it through funding research to manage, cure and prevent diabetes, including type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes. It is a network of 565,000 volunteers which ...
The United States Access Board (also known as the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board) is an independent agency of the United States government devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities.
The 2016 elections to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities resulted in a Committee with only one female member and 17 males, [60] an imbalance rectified in 2018 elections. This was despite the CRPD's explicit call in Article 34 for consideration of "balanced gender representation" on the committee.