Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

{{Short description|United States federal agency}}

The Administration on Disabilities (AoD) is the United States federal agency responsible for implementation and administration of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act){{cite web|url=http://www.acl.gov/Programs/AIDD/DD_History/index.aspx|title=AIDD: History of the DD Act|access-date=2013-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053733/http://www.acl.gov/Programs/AIDD/DD_History/index.aspx|archive-date=2013-09-21|url-status=dead}} and the disability provisions of the Help America Vote Act. Organizationally, the Administration on Developmental Disabilities is located within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is part of the Department's Administration for Children and Families. In 2012, ADD was included in the newly formed Administration for Community Living.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oF_8cTN0XcIC&pg=PA34106|title=Federal Register|publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration|year=2013|volume=78|pages=34106|language=en|issue=109}}{{Cite book|last=Linehan|first=Christine|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpwQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA307|title=Mental Health, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Ageing Process|publisher=Springer Nature|year=2020|isbn=978-3-030-56934-1|editor-last=Prasher|editor-first=Vee P.|location=Cham, Switzerland|pages=307|language=en|chapter=Living Arrangement Options|editor-last2=Davidson|editor-first2=Philip W.|editor-last3=Santos|editor-first3=Flavia H.}}

ADD's mission is to improve and increase services to and assure that individuals with developmental disabilities have opportunities to make their own choices, contribute to society, have supports to live independently, and are free of abuse, neglect, financial and sexual exploitation, and violations of their legal and human rights.{{Cite book|last1=Petri|first1=Alexis|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5HFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|title=Youth: Responding to Lives: An International Reader|last2=Jenson|first2=Ronda|last3=Day|first3=Arden D.|last4=Carlkins|first4=Carl F.|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|year=2013|isbn=978-94-6209-431-4|editor-last=Azzopardi|editor-first=Andrew|pages=212|language=en|chapter=13. Youth Lead. Reflections on a Leadership Program for Youth with Developmental Disabilities}}