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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-1989
Folder Title: National Developmental Disabilities
Awareness Month
Box: 81 (1987)
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OF THE UNITED THA STATES. 10 SEAL
National Developmental Disabilities
Awareness Month, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Nearly four million Americans have grown up with severe physical or mental
impairments that have slowed their learning, limited their mobility, inhibited
their expression, and rendered them dependent on others for care and assist-
ance.
For many of these people with developmental disabilities there is now the
prospect of a brighter future and greater opportunity. Americans are becoming
increasingly aware that such disabilities need not keep individuals from
realizing their full potential in school, at work or at home, as members of their
families and of their communities.
New opportunities have been created through the efforts of those with devel-
opmental disabilities and their family members, along with professionals and
officials at all levels of government. Working together, they have brought
about significant changes in the public perception of young people and adults
with developmental disabilities, opening new doors to independent and pro-
ductive lives.
One important new milestone is the fruitful partnership between government
and the private sector in finding productive employment for people with
developmental disabilities, people who might otherwise have been destined to
a lifetime of dependency. In the past 2 years, the Administration's Employ-
ment Initiative has resulted in finding job opportunities for more than 87,000
people with developmental disabilities.
The Congress, by Public Law 99-483, has designated the month of March 1987
as "National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month" and authorized
and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this
event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the month of March 1987 as National Develop-
mental Disabilities Awareness Month. I invite all individuals, agencies, and
organizations concerned with the problem of developmental disabilities to
observe this month with appropriate observances and activities directed
toward increasing public awareness of the needs and the potential of Ameri-
cans with developmental disabilities. I urge all Americans to join me in
according to our fellow citizens with such disabilities both encouragement and
the opportunities they need to lead productive lives and to achieve their full
potential.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day
of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
eleventh.
Ronald Reagan