People With Disabilities Awareness Day 2025
Join Us for a great day
Are you ready to network? Celebrate outstanding accomplishments? If so, join us for People with Disabilities Awareness Day from noon to 4:30 p.m., March 11, 2025, at the Oklahoma History Center.
Let's take action! Plan on coming, bring a friend or two and network with the more than 70 disability-centric exhibitors. They bring a wealth of information and might introduce you to new programs.
Celebrate success! Stay and congratulate our Awareness Day Award Winners.
As always, our event is free to all who want to attend. The venue is ideal for talking with exhibitors and an outstanding place to showcase the award winners.
PWDAD 2025 Awards Program
Every year we honor individuals who make a difference for the disability community, either by being an example or paving the way for success. We will honor our People with Disabilities Awareness Day Award winners at 3 p.m. in the Chesapeake Room.
Don't miss DRS Executive Director Melinda Fruendt and our Commissioners presenting the honors.
Agenda
Mark your calendars for the event and plan to attend.
Noon: Exhibits open
3 p.m.: Awards program
What about Legislative visits?
While the event is not at the state Capitol we still hope you use the day to reach out to your lawmaker. If you can't visit in person, make a phone call, type an email, or post to your favorite social media and tag a representative or senator. Tell them how they can best serve the disability community.
We don't want to miss our opportunities just because we are across the street. It's a time to learn to advocate for yourself, for your family or on behalf of those you work with. This day is still your opportunity to explain the positive impact of critical disability programs.
Join us at the Oklahoma History Center
This year we will be hosting PWDAD at the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. This beautiful facility is not only made for our event by being able to hold the large number of exhibitors that we are used to but our awards program as well. No elevator waits - it's all on one floor.
Admission to the building and PWDAD is free. The doors to the museum exhibits will be open thanks to the Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council sponsoring the entry fees.
Special Thanks
Be sure to plan to visit the History Center's exhibits. This year, the doors to the exhibits will be wide open thanks to Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council for paying everyone's entrance fee.
Thank you ORC for making a great day even better!
PWDAD Event Flyer
Check out the event flyer and help us spread the word by sending it to all your friends. Tell them how important it is to inform our state Legislators about the issues that affect the disability community and for all of us to stand united.
Coming soon.
Bringing a group?
Are you bringing a group? Make a List!
Are you bringing more than 10 people with you to People with Disabilities Awareness Day? If so, do you want to get through registration faster?
List everyone in your group including yourself on a piece of paper. When you arrive give it to the volunteers at the registration tables and go enjoy the day.
You won't have to try to keep your group together while signing each person in.
Be seen, wear green
Do you want a People with Disabilities Awareness Day t-shirt? Get yours here!
Let's stand united! Be seen, wear green - any green or a PWDAD t-shirt, we're not picky.
Come visit the 2025 Exhibitors
People with Disabilities Awareness Day always has great exhibits with a vast assortment of information and key people to get to know. We will provide a list when this information is available.
Check out the exhibitors
Check back from time to time as new exhibitors will be added as they sign up.
- Autism Foundation of Oklahoma
- Ability Connection Oklahoma
- BIOS Corporation
- Brain Injury Alliance of Oklahoma
- Brainxcite
- CaptionCall
- Caregiver Magazine
- Central Oklahoma Workforce Innovation Board (COWIB)
- Dan Lutz Drive School
- Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma
- Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma
- DRTC
- EMBARK
- GALT Staffing
- Hearing Loss Association Central Oklahoma Chapter
- Hope Retreat Ranch - therapeutic Horse Riding
- IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service
- Jeri's House, Inc.
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc.
- Medicare Assistance Program / Oklahoma Insurance Department
- Mobility One Transportation Inc
- NanoPac, Inc.
- NCDET Project SEARCH
- Newby Vance Mobility
- Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Service Programs
- Business Services Program
- Disability Determination Services
- Oklahoma School for the Deaf
- Oklahoma Telecommunications and Equipment Distribution Program
- Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- SBVI Assistive Technology
- SBVI Business Enterprise Program
- SBVI OK Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- SBVI OLBPH Accessible Instructional Material (AIM) Center
- Business Services Program
- Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services continued
- SBVI Older Blind program
- Transition
- Vocational Rehabilitation (general information table)
- VR Benefits Planners
- VR Career Planning Center
- VR Employment Support Services
- VR Services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- OKIPSE Alliance
- Oklahoma ABLE Tech
- Oklahoma City West Side Lions
- Oklahoma Office of Disability Concerns
- Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council
- Oklahoma State Department of Education
- OSU OKC Interpreter Training Program
- Sight Hearing Encouragement Program
- Sooner SUCCESS
- Sunhive Collective, Inc
- Supporters of Families with Sickle Cell Disease, Inc.
- Tech-Now Inc
- The 34 Project
- Twin Cedars / Make Promises Happen
- United Access
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