We encourage as many AAC users as possible to share your research priorities with NIDCD.
This is a plain language guide to research and why it is important. The government is asking people what…
We are naming ourselves. And we choose our words with great care. Our decisions are guided by respect for the diversity of our community and for every person’s right to choose the words they use for themselves.
It’s gratifying when policymakers #LISTEN! On November 21, 2022, CommunicationFIRST submitted comments to the National Institute on Disability, Independent…
CommunicationFIRST is excited to announce the following additions to its leadership team: Our new Vice Chair is Pancho Ramirez…
On April 19, 2023, CommunicationFIRST was honored to be given an award from the Association of University Centers on…
On June 20, 2022, the evening after Juneteenth, CommunicationFIRST Policy Director Bob Williams, and CommunicationFIRST Advisory Council member Devva…
Bob Williams delivering a eulogy at Judy Heumann’s memorial service at the Adas Israel Congregation synagogue in Washington, DC,…
Like others in the disability community and around the world, everyone at CommunicationFIRST is devastated by the untimely loss…
Content Warning: This post discusses police brutality against disabled people. On January 26, 2023, police in Huntington Park, California,…
I hear their painful cries jut up from cracks on the street.
The block is a scorching frying pan,
frying my brothers on the pavement.
A Working Definition and Request for Input For centuries, people with significant speech disabilities have been treated as if…
Guest blog by Jordyn Zimmerman, M.Ed. On November 18, 2022, CommunicationFIRST Board Chair Jordyn Zimmerman gave an invited presentation…
Bob Williams Testimony on behalf of CommunicationFIRST on the Rights of Children and Youth to Effective Communication and Quality Health…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CommunicationFIRST joins other disability rights advocates to express dismay at the public and media response to…