National Forum on Disability Issues
featuring
The 2008 Presidential Candidates (invited)

July 26, 2008
Columbus, Ohio

About the Forum

The National Forum on Disability Issues, featuring the 2008 Presidential Candidates (invited) is a historic, nonpartisan forum on national disability policy to be held on July 26, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. The venue allows us to welcome well over a thousand Americans with disabilities and their friends and family (registration required) to attend the event, and to commemorate the 18th anniversary of our civil rights law, the Americans with Disabilities Act. The forum will feature time slots for the presidential candidates to individually present their visions for the future of disability policy in America followed by questions by Judy Woodruff, news anchor and journalist ("The News Hour with Jim Lehrer"), who will act as the Moderator.

This presidential candidates forum builds on the success of our November primary-focused forum in New Hampshire, where the disability community made history with its first-ever disability presidential candidates forum with participation from seven presidential candidates, five of them in person.

In addition to a large live attendance, tens of thousands from across the country will tune in via simultaneous webcast. The forum will also be broadcast live start to finish over all Ohio radio reading services, giving access to the event to people with disabilities in Ohio who don't have a computer and aren't able to attend to attend the event in person.

Webcast:

Please plan on joining us remotely if you can't come in person. Watch with your family, or set up a viewing party in your area and bring lots of folks together to watch as a group.

The National Forum on Disability Issues featured a live, simultaneous webcast, complete with pass-through captioning and American Sign Language interpreting.

The webcast was made possible by .

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Date, Time, and Location

Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008

Time: 12:30 pm ET - 4:00 pm ET

Location:
Conference & Technology Center
First Church of God
3480 Refugee Road
Columbus, Ohio 43232

Map to Event Location

Forum Sponsors

Hosting Sponsors ($1,500 level)

1. AARP
2. ACCSES
3. ADAPT
4. ADA Watch & National Coalition for Disability Rights
5. American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
6. American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
7. ANCOR
8. Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
9. Buckeye Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America
10. Disability Rights Montana
11. Epilepsy Foundation
12. Goodwill Industries International
13. National Association of the Deaf
14. National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)
15. National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA)
16. NEXT STEP
17. Nisonger Center of the Ohio State University
18. Ohio Association of Adult Services
19. Ohio Association of Goodwill Industries (OAGI)
20. Ohio Disability Vote Coalition
21. Ohio Legal Rights Service
22. Ohio Olmstead Task Force
23. Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council
24. Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
25. Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
26. Special Olympics International
27. Spina Bifida Association of Cincinnati (SBAC)
28. The Ability Center of Greater Toledo
29. The Arc of the United States
30. United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)
31. United Spinal Association
32. Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition (WDVC)
33. VSA arts

Supporting Sponsors ($500 level)

34. Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
35. American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
36. American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
37. Amputee Coalition of America
38. Autistic Self-Advocacy Network with The Autism Acceptance Project, The
39. Autism Society of Ohio
40. Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD)
41. Yoshiko Dart
42. Dr. Daryl Ann Doane
43. Easter Seals of Ohio
44. Echoing Hills Village
45. Fifth Freedom Network
46. Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
47. Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, Inc.
48. Invacare
49. LADD, Inc. (Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled)
50. Little People of America (LPA)
51. Missouri Disability Vote Project, a project of Paraquad, Inc.
52. National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
53. National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer / Survivor Organizations
54. National Consortium on Leadership and Disability/Youth
55. National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)
56. National Fragile X Foundation
57. National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN)
58. North Coast Rehabilitation Coalition - Cleveland, Ohio
59. Ohio Association of Centers for Independent Living
60. Ohio Association of County Boards/MRDD
61. Ohio Down Syndrome Advocacy Network (ODAN)
62. Ohio Governor's Council on People with Disabilities (GCPD)
63. Ohio Provider Resource Association
64. Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA)
65. United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio
66. United States Society for Augmentative Alternative Communication (USSAAC)
67. The Arc of Ohio
68. The Whole Person, Inc.

Contributing Sponsors ($100-$499)

69. American Association on Health and Disability
70. American Society of Hematology
71. Cerebral Palsy Association of Ohio
72. Disability Network Ohio - Solidarity
73. Inter-National Association of Business, Industry, and Rehabilitation (I-NABIR)
74. Paul Steven Miller and Jennifer Mechem
75. Susan Golden (Kailua Kona Hawaii)
76. The Autism Legislation Project
77. The University of Washington Disability Studies Program
78. United Cerebral Palsy – Pittsburgh

Media Sponsors

79. Ability Magazine
80. Able Newspaper
81. Disaboom
82. International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS)
83. VOICEcorps reading service
84. WOSU Public Media