Achieve Self-Sufficiency
The ILRC Enables persons with disabilities to take responsibility for and control of their own lives. To make decisions. To reduce their dependence on people around them.
The ILRC Provides persons with disabilities the opportunities to develop the skills necessary to live their own productive lives.
The ILRC Facilitates independent living by making available ongoing support services, thereby empowering persons with physical, visual and/or hearing disabilities to achieve self-sufficiency.
Eliminate the Barriers
The ILRC Believes that individuals are defined in terms of their abilities rather than their disabilities.
The ILRC Educates the community, with the goal of eliminating physical and attitudinal barriers, whatever they may be.
The ILRC Advocates for and with consumers when discrimination or denial of access poses obstacles to independence, thereby fortifying persons with physical, visual and/or hearing disabilities to eliminate the barriers.
Full Participation
The ILRC Prepares people who are newly disabled to cope with their altered lives and identify strategies necessary to re-enter society on their own terms.
The ILRC Encourages persons with disabilities to actively participate in the community at every level.
The ILRC is a Partner in the development of a system of access that doesn't differentiate between persons with disabilities and those who are able-bodied, thereby compelling everyone toward the goal of full participation.
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