DD Awareness Month
This March, help us make our community more inclusivefor people of every ability by joining our month-long celebration.
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Check out our 2025 March DD Awareness Accomplishments
Join us for Inclusion Day 2025!
March 3, 2025 was Inclusion Day and our kickoff to March DD Awareness Month! Find out how how our incredible community helped spread the message of INCLUSION and support people of all abilities.
Inclusion Day 2025
Inclusion Days at the Zoo were a huge success!
Summit DD and the Akron Zoo teamed up for some good, inclusive fun on March 1-3, 2025 to celebrate people of every ability for DD Awareness Month.
Check out the photos
2025 ArtWalk – March 13, 2025
We teamed up with Summit Art Space to host an inclusive art walk on March 13 in recognition of DD Awareness Month. The theme for this year’s art walk is Creative Voices: Empowering Artists of All Abilities.
Get all the details here!
Be Part of the Change
We’re committed to helping people reach their full potential, but we need your help to make lasting progress. This March, ask yourself if you are doing all you can to create opportunities for all abilities.
Contact us about free trainings and assessments for your organization.
Appreciation Breakfast at House Three Thirty
March would not be complete if we didn’t recognize local self-advocates, DSPs, and community allies who work tirelessly to advocate for positive change.
See the photos from the 2025 Appreciation Breakfast
Make Your Workplace Inclusive
Learn more about how Summit DD’s Employment Collaborative can help your business connect with a largely untapped market of qualified job candidates or provide training for your teams.
Learn about the Employment Collaborative
New Inclusive Opportunity!
New in 2025! Summit DD has teamed up with We Rock the Spectrum Stow for DD Awareness Month! Visitors wearing orange March 10-15 will receive discounted admission. Plus, join us 10:00 – 11:00 am each week day that week for hands on activities facilitated by Summit DD’s Early Intervention & Early Child Focus Area teams.
Get the details here!National Disability Awareness Month History
National Developmental Disabilities (DD) Awareness Month officially began in 1987 with a proclamation from President Reagan to help bring awareness and acceptance for people of every ability. Since then, families, self-advocates, advocacy groups and Ohio’s County Boards have been working to increase opportunities for people with disabilities. But there’s still more progress to be made.
Learn moreAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
On July 26, 1990 the ADA was signed into law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
Learn more about the ADA