About the National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Acccess

The purpose of the Center is to assist protection and advocacy systems to ensure voting access for citizens with cognitive disabilities and visual disabilities.

Key Center Activities:

• Assist protection and advocacy systems to identify and address barriers to cognitive accessibility.
• Connect protection and advocacy systems (P & As) with self-advocacy groups.
• Provide national technical assistance through Go Vote P & A teleconferences, NDRN conference in-service training, leadership on the Disability Vote Alliance (DVA), this interactive website (www.govoter.org), listserv, email and toll-free telephone support.
• Develop tools and materials that are important to protection and advocacy systems for increasing cognitive access.
• Provide training at NDRN national conferences.
• Intensive on-site training with P & As, self-advocacy groups, and election officials on providing cognitively accessible voter education for citizens with cognitive disabilities.  This includes voter registration, casting a ballot, and full participation in the electoral process.
• Develop materials and tools for increasing cognitive access -  including an “I CAN VOTE” public service announcement - cognitively accessible voter education training curriculum and a quick guide to voter registration.
• Provide technical assistance to P & As in building partnerships with self-advocacy groups.

The National Technical Assistance Center is a partnership of

• Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered
• Oklahoma Disability Law Center
• The National Center for Self-Determination and 21st Century Leadership at Portland State University
• The RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities at the University of Illinois
• Georgia Advocacy Office
  
• TheArcLink Incorporated

The Vote Team

Click here to learn more about the Vote Team.