Disability Consulting Services and Advocacy

Through governmental advocacy, public awareness activities, and professional disability consulting, CTD ensures that persons with disabilities may work, live, learn, play and participate fully in the community of their choice.

CTD's 2009 Legislative Report

Follow this link to view our 2009 Legislative Report.

CTD held it's 31st annual convention on April 5th and 6th at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference center in Austin, Texas. We hosted a wealth of political speakers, a rally and press conference for disability rights and gold medal winning paralympian Mark Zupan. Thank you to everyone involved and our wonderful sponsors. For more information go to the convention page.

We would like to acknowledge our 2009 Convention Sponsors

 

Raise Your Voice!

Dennis Borel and 5 people with disabilities speaking in front of the state Capitol

Directly tell your legislator what you think about disability issues. You can now RAISE YOUR VOICE to the person who represents you in Austin through the RAISE YOUR VOICE page on our web site. RAISE YOUR VOICE will show you how or the postal service.

You will receive Action Alerts about important legislative issues when you register with this service. We will send you these Alerts whenever urgent action is crucial on legislative issues.

Did You Know that the ADA Does Not Protect Texans with Disabilities?

State Attorney General Abbott has declared in court that Texas has sovereign immunity from the Americans with Disabilities Act and may not be held accountable for discriminatory acts of state agencies, universities, facilities, programs or any other state activity.

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2007 Student Film Competition Grand Prize Winner, Forgotten Lives, now available for purchase on DVD. Click here for details.

Cinema Touching Disability shows that one's spirit need not be limited, either by a disability or society's stereotypes regarding disability, by illustrating how people with disabilities lead both ordinary and extraordinary lives, hold diverse attitudes, and possess varied accomplishments and abilities. To learn more about this disability awareness raising project please visit www.ctdfilmfest.org.


Team Everest

CTD's history making and award-winning Team Everest '03 was a huge success! Team Everest twice made history: first when the largest group of people with various disabilities successfully climbed to Mt. Everest Base Camp, at an elevation over 19,000 ft., then again when team Leader Gary Guller became the first man with one arm to summit Mt. Everest!

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