Government Affairs

NBDA recognizes that advocacy is most effective when backed by legislative action. Therefore, NBDA participates in a number of legislative and policy oriented coalitions. NBDA is a member of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network (DHHCAN) a coalition of national consumer organizations of, by, and for deaf and hard of hearing people. DHHCAN addresses advocacy, public policy and legislative issues relating to rights, quality of life, equal access, and self-representation and legislative issues. NBDA also participates in the ADA Watch coalition, a National Coalition for Disability Rights that is a nonpartisan alliance of more than 400 national, state and local disability, civil rights, and other organizations united to defend and strengthen the civil rights of people with disabilities. (www.adawatch.org) NBDA is represented in the Coalition for Movie Captioning (CMC) through membership in DHHCAN. CMC focus is to increase the number of movies theaters films that are being captioned. http://www.nad.org/infocenter/newsroom/nadnews/cmcstatus.html

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