Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
I realize it has been a while since there has been an update on the Autism Equity Act, so I wanted to give you several updates & information for the upcoming year:

The Autism Equity Act begins taking effect in January of ‘07. However, depending on when your insurance [...]

On November 16th, 2006, a Tennessee Legislative study group met to review and discuss legislation sponsored last spring by Senator Ketron and Representative Tom DuBois. That legislation failed to become law, but if it had parents might have found navigating Tennessee’s special education programming less challenging and children might have been better protected. [...]

On November 10, 2006 the Tennessee Chapter of the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) hosted a day long discussion of “the rights, realities and risks involving consent, personhood and conservatorship in people with intellectual disabilities.”
The discussion was wide-ranging and open to questions from the audience. It was led by a panel of experts [...]

Welcome to the Tennessee Disability Coalition’s News Blog. As many of you know, we publish a quarterly magazine, but a lot of news happens between each issue so hopefully this blog will become a valuable means of keeping up with news in the Tennessee disability community. However, the opinions expressed here by writers are [...]