• An alliance of hundreds of national, state, and local nonpartisan organizations, foundations, and policy think tanks united to promote educational and economic opportunity for children and adults with disabilities.
   
• A national grassroots and media campaign designed to get the message to educate policymakers and the public about our movement’s history as well as current threats to the ADA and other disability rights protections.  
   

ADA Watch/National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR) is a nonpartisan alliance of hundreds of disability, civil rights, and social justice organizations united to defend and strengthen the human rights protections for children and adults with physical, mental, developmental and cognitive disabilities. Founded as ADA Watch in 2001, the coalition formed in response to escalating attacks on the ADA in the courts, Congress, from the Administration, and in the media.

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and our friend, the late Justin Dart, Jr., served as the founding Chair of the ADA Watch National Advisory Council which now includes Tony Coelho, Judy Heumann, Bob Kafka, Pat Wright, Curt Decker, Wade Henderson, Janine Bertram Kemp, Ralph Neas, Lee Page, Marcie Roth, Nan Aron, Tony Young, Marca Bristo, Nancy Starnes, Mike Oxford,  Anne-Marie Hughey, Andy Imparato, Ron Bassman, Pope Simmons, Shereen Arent, Michele Pollak, Kyle Glozier, Jamie Ruppmann, and other leaders.  

National organizational members include disability organizations such as the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, National Council on Independent Living, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), The Arc, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, ADAPT, National Organization on Disability, United Cerebral Palsy, American Association of People with Disabilities, Justice for All, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Paralyzed Veterans of America, National Spinal Cord Injury Association, and the National Association of the Deaf.  Civil rights and social justice organizations include the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Alliance for Justice, People for the American Way, and many others.