The poster "Your Words, Our Image" and the booklet Guidelines for Reporting and Writing About People with Disabilities,
7th Edition provide guidance on using "people first" language that creates a straightforward, positive view of people with disabilities. Visit Products/Media.
Other projects include:
Nobody Left Behind: Disaster Preparedness
Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities
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Final Report
Keeping people healthy through influenza outbreaks is an educational priority for the RTC/IL.
Preparedness saves lives, and is especially important for people with disabilities or chronic health
conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma, the elderly, and people with compromised health.
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This workshop teaches skills for developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Now staff members from several Kansas Centers for Independent Living (CILs) are learning how to facilitate the Living Well course, like the groups from Resource Center for Independent Living (RCIL) pictured above. Click here to find out how your community-based organization can also help people with disabilities and chronic health conditions learn to improve their health and quality of life. 
Glen White, Director of the RTC/IL, led an American "Dream Team" of IL experts to Peru in January for this summit. The Americans shared what they have learned to help the Peruvians develop their own IL movement. In the photo above, Dr. White (front, center), the American team and several Peruvian colleagues visit an Incan temple.
