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For families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a new school year rarely feels like a clean slate. It feels like the first item on a list that includes an IEP meeting, a new teacher who may not yet know your child, and the quiet worry that something important gets missed before October. We can't promise every meeting will go smoothly. What we can offer is a clearer picture of what to expect and what you're entitled to ask for, because that changes h

Access is not an afterthought to equality. It is what equality is made of. A right that a person cannot actually exercise, because the tools, the training, or the entry point were never built with them in mind, is not fully a right at all. That is the argument at the center of digital literacy work, even though it rarely gets framed that way. For Oklahomans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the ability to safely navigate a phone, a video call, or a news feed i

Last year, 66,259 individuals were impacted through The Arc's advocacy and public policy work.

Five seats on our Board of Directors are opening this year, and I want to tell you honestly what that means, because "join our board" gets said a lot in the nonprofit world without much explanation of what it involves. We serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in all 77 Oklahoma counties, from birth through the end of life. That is a big footprint for a board of 24 people, and it works best when the people making decisions come from a

The path forward is rarely clear for a child born with an intellectual or developmental disability, or for their family.

This summer, America turned 250. Parades, fireworks, flags. A celebration of the ideals this country was founded on. Liberty. Justice. The belief that every person has the right to live a full life on their own terms. It is a good moment to ask whether we are living up to those ideals. For Oklahomans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the answer is: we are getting there. But we are not there yet. Civil rights did not stop at disability The Americans with Disabi

No parent should have to navigate special education alone. Arc@School helps families advocate with confidence.