New CD-Rom
A Congressional Insider's View: How to Be and Effective Disability Policy Change Agent (Spring 2002. Further revised December 2002)
This CD-Rom includes handouts, articles and three comprehensive guides.
Handouts
- Historical Treatment of People with Disabilities
- Emerging Disability Policy Framework: A Guide for Developing Public Policy for Persons with Disabilities
- Top Ten Tips on How to Be an Effective Disability Policy Change Agent
- Guidelines for Meeting with a Policy Maker
- Building Effective Coalitions
- Strategic Planning
- Principled Negotiations: A Tool for Getting to Yes
- Pressure Points in the Federal Budget Process
- Pressure Points in the Legislative Process
- Summary of ADA Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court
- Disability Policy Web Sites
Articles
- The Emerging Disability Policy Framework: A Guidepost for Analyzing Public Policy
- Overview (27 pages)
- Iowa Law Review, August 2000, Volume 85, No. 5 (64 pages)
- Major Disability Legislation 1956-2000 (16 pages)
Three Comprehensive Guides:
- General Guidelines for Disability Policy Change Agents
- Effective Strategies for Interacting with Policy-Makers
- Developing Organized Coalitions and Strategic Plans

