
ABLE TODAY SHOW
Mark Raymond Jr and Sara Hart Weir, two disability advocates for ABLEtoday.org discuss the ABLE Act and how it's helping thousands of people with disabilities across the country. Mark and Sara interview leaders in the disability community weekly.
ABLE TODAY SHOW
Sandy Swift Parrino - Part 2
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Mark Raymond Jr & Sara Hart Weir
Part 2 of our living history with the unstoppable Sandy Swift Parrino and how the Disabilities Act ♿ (ADA) came to be. Through Sandy’s leadership as Chair of the National Council on Disability [IG @ncdgov] (NCD), the group had written the report, “Toward Independence,” which Sandy describes as the “birth of the ADA,” and had a meeting in 1986 with then Vice President George H.W. Bush. Suddenly NCD was on the map and players!