The Liaison Committee represents the Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) in its advocacy for students with learning disabilities. The Liaison Committee co-chairs represent CLD on the Education Task force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD). The advocacy of this group is a powerful national voice for all individuals with any type of disability. The website www.c-c-d.org provides up to date information on current national initiatives.

Recent work of CCD includes:

1. CCD Response to the President's FY 2014 Budget Request more...
2. Getting the Facts Straight on Disability more...

The Liaison Committee co-chairs also represent CLD on the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD). NJCLD members write papers on various important issues to the learning disability field. These papers include topics such as transition, response to inervention, assessment, and adolescent literacy. Copies of the papers can be found on the LD Online website - www.ldonline.org/about/partners/njcld

The National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities has published a paper addressing the documentation disconnect that confronts high school students with LD who move to postsecondary setting more...

Recent papers have also included:

1. Learning Disabilities: Implication for Policy Regarding Research and Practice more...
2. Comprehensive Assessment and Evaluation of Students with LD more...
3. Adolescent Literacy and Older Students with Learning Disabilities more...

An update on the Liaison Committee's work is provided at each of the CLD national conferences, and a committee meeting is held that is open to all attendees. In addition, members are encouraged to act throughout the year on various issues.

1. Principles for the Reauthorization of ESEA, a statement provided by the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities. more...
2. Principles for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a statement provided by the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities. more...
3. Learning Disabilities Roundtable: Seeking Common Ground: Priority Issues. Submitted by The Council for Learning Disabilities in response to the white papers presented at the LD Summit in August 2001. more...
4. Response to "Rethinking Special Education." Submitted by the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities. more...