{"id":16,"date":"2024-07-10T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:03:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About CDCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"videos-block d-flex uvm-block wp-full-width bg-gray small\" id=\"Videos\">\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n    <div class=\"row align-items-center overview-row\">\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-lg-8 details\">\n                <h2>We believe disability is an equity issue.<\/h2>                      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"video-grid row\">\n\n            <div class=\"video col-12 col-md-4\">\n        <div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nothing About Us Without Us\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePlva69rVoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"link-tiles-block d-flex uvm-block wp-full-width bg-white\" id=\"Resources\">\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row align-items-center overview-row\">\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-md-10 details\">\n                <h2 class=\"uvm-block-header\">What We Do<\/h2>              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n        <div class=\"link-tiles-grid row\">\n          <article class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-3 smaller hentry\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cess\/doe\/program\/disability-studies-certificate-graduate-study\" target=\"\" class=\"article-link d-flex\">\n          <header>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\">We teach:<\/h3>\n\n                        <div class=\"entry-excerpt\">\n              <p>We offer a\u00a0graduate certificate in disability studies,\u00a0taught by and with people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re home to the innovative and nationally recognized\u00a0Think College VT program, that provides students with disabilities supported access to an undergraduate education at the University of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>We partner with people with disabilities in creating courses with other departments, such as\u00a0this Global Disabilities course\u00a0in the Special Education department.<\/p>\n<p>We work to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies to promote inclusion, diversity, and self-determination.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            \n            <p class=\"icon-indicator\"><i class=\"fa-arrow-right fa-regular fa-sharp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/p>\n          <\/header>\n\n          <figure>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-750x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two-md size-three-two-md\" alt=\"A college-aged man with short curly hair and glasses points to something on a laptop, while seated next to a college-aged woman with blonde hair, who is looking at the screen\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-1000x665.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0595-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>          <\/figure>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/article>\n                <article class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-3 smaller hentry\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/research\/\" target=\"\" class=\"article-link d-flex\">\n          <header>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\">We research:<\/h3>\n\n                        <div class=\"entry-excerpt\">\n              <p>We conduct research to improve disability services and advocacy policies. In 2022, our research\u00a0into the suspension and expulsion of children with disabilities in Vermont\u00a0(video) was instrumental in creating new legislation around early childhood education.<\/p>\n<p>We partner with researchers in our college, university, and other organizations in prioritizing disability advocacy in research.<\/p>\n<p>We share our own and other people\u2019s research in\u00a0multiple accessible formats.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            \n            <p class=\"icon-indicator\"><i class=\"fa-arrow-right fa-regular fa-sharp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/p>\n          <\/header>\n\n          <figure>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nicole-v-forwebsite-750x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two-md size-three-two-md\" alt=\"a pale-skinned college-aged woman speaks into a microphone in front of a research poster\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nicole-v-forwebsite-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nicole-v-forwebsite-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>          <\/figure>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/article>\n                <article class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-3 smaller hentry\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/services\/\" target=\"\" class=\"article-link d-flex\">\n          <header>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\">We serve:<\/h3>\n\n                        <div class=\"entry-excerpt\">\n              <p>We\u2019re home to 31 active projects serving different areas of disability access and inclusion, such as the\u00a0Vermont Continence Project,\u00a0Project SCOPE VT,\u00a0Vermont Early Mobility, and the\u00a0UVM Autism Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>We share resources related to digital and physical accessibility, such as the\u00a0CDCI Accessible Events Guide\u00a0(.pdf).<\/p>\n<p>We support other disability advocacy groups around Vermont with\u00a0funding and promotional work.<\/p>\n<p>We work as part of the\u00a0Vermont Community of Practice\u00a0in examining how Vermont\u2019s disability advocacy can and must be responsive to issues of diversity, including racism, homophobia, sexism, classism, and language bias.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            \n            <p class=\"icon-indicator\"><i class=\"fa-arrow-right fa-regular fa-sharp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/p>\n          <\/header>\n\n          <figure>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-750x500.png\" class=\"attachment-three-two-md size-three-two-md\" alt=\"A blonde woman in her mid-forties arranges the limbs of a small child in a bed, supported by pillows, as another woman looks on\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-1000x667.png 1000w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/24hrpc-front-page.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>          <\/figure>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/article>\n                <article class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-3 smaller hentry\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/communications\/news-events\/\" target=\"\" class=\"article-link d-flex\">\n          <header>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\">We tell stories:<\/h3>\n\n                        <div class=\"entry-excerpt\">\n              <p>We tell stories of the lives of Vermonters with disabilities, and help get them to a wider audience.<br \/>\nWe share news and events of interest to the Vermont disability community.<br \/>\nWe connect the Vermont disability community to the University of Vermont.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            \n            <p class=\"icon-indicator\"><i class=\"fa-arrow-right fa-regular fa-sharp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/p>\n          <\/header>\n\n          <figure>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/adrienne-and-david-pomo-750x500.png\" class=\"attachment-three-two-md size-three-two-md\" alt=\"A full-figured white man in his sixties sits next to a mixed-race Asian woman in her forties at a table. Both are wearing headphones and a microphone is in front of the man\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/adrienne-and-david-pomo-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/adrienne-and-david-pomo-1500x1000.png 1500w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/adrienne-and-david-pomo-120x80.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>          <\/figure>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/article>\n              <\/div>\n    \n\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"featured-cta-block d-flex uvm-block wp-full-width bg-white\" id=\"CTA\">\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n    <div class=\"row overview-columns align-items-center\">\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 details\">\n        <p class=\"overline\">About<\/p>        <h2 class=\"h3\">Our values:<\/h2>        <p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:list --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><strong>Disability is one form of diversity<\/strong>\u00a0and it requires cultural and linguistic competency. Diversity is essential to everyone\u2019s success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>All services and supports for children and youth should be family-centered.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>All services and supports for adults should be person-centered.\u00a0<\/strong>Individuals and families should have personal choice and control over their lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>All children should live in safe homes with their families.\u00a0<\/strong>As people mature they should have the opportunity to live in homes of their own with appropriate community supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>All supports should be within the community.<\/strong>\u00a0Individuals and families needing supports should exercise control over funding, delivery, and quality of supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Everyone should have access to personally meaningful places and activities.\u00a0<\/strong>Opportunities should be available for everyone to develop networks of meaningful relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Effective change stems from a strengths-based approach, rather than a problems approach.<\/strong>\u00a0That means first looking for the positive rather than the negative, and building from there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Prevention, rather than crisis intervention.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The CDCI is Vermont\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aucd.org\/urc\/ucedd\">University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Servic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aucd.org\/template\/page.cfm?id=667\">e<\/a>, otherwise known as a UCEDD. That means we\u2019re one of 68 centers nationwide funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/acl.gov\/about-acl\/authorizing-statutes\/developmental-disabilities-assistance-and-bill-rights-act-2000\">Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n              <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 media\">\n        <figure>\n          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ian-at-valentines-750x500.png\" class=\"attachment-three-two-md size-three-two-md\" alt=\"A college-aged man with Down syndrome, wearing glasses, a Vermont ball cap and a green flannel shirt, smiles over his shoulder at the camera. Behind him, a Valentines party is in full swing.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ian-at-valentines-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ian-at-valentines-1500x1000.png 1500w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ian-at-valentines-120x80.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>        <\/figure>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"stats-block d-flex uvm-block wp-full-width bg-green\" id=\"Stats\">\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n    <div class=\"row overview-columns\">\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 media\">\n        <figure>\n          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd.jpg\" class=\"attachment-eleven-nine size-eleven-nine\" alt=\"A bald white man in his fifties holds the camera for a selfie with a white man with brown curly hair, a Black man, and a mixed-race Asian woman in her forties, with the Washington monument in the background\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdci.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/group-selfie-at-aucd-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>        <\/figure>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 details\">\n        <div>\n                    <h2>CDCI by the Numbers<\/h2>          \n                    <ul class=\"stats row\">\n                        <li>\n              <span class=\"highlight\">106 <\/span>              full-time, part-time, and contract employees            <\/li>\n                        <li>\n              <span class=\"highlight\">more than 600 <\/span>              publications, presentations, trainings, events, and services per year            <\/li>\n                        <li>\n              <span class=\"highlight\">more than 15,000 <\/span>              service hours to the disability community per year            <\/li>\n                        <li>\n              <span class=\"highlight\">$5.4 million <\/span>              annual operating budget            <\/li>\n                      <\/ul>\n          \n          \n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2168,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About CDCI - UVM Center on Disability &amp; 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