Ability Beyond Disability Employee Appointed as President of the Connecticut Chapter of American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Nicole Cadovius, Director of Connecticut Residential Services at Ability Beyond Disability, has recently been appointed Connecticut Chapter President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

The goals of AAIDD are to enhance the capacity of professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to participate in the development of a society that fully includes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and to build an effective, responsive, well managed, responsibly-governed, and sustainable organization.  

“I am honored and excited to serve CT AAIDD as president,” says Nicole Cadovius, Director of CT Residential Services at Ability Beyond Disability. “While the pressures of lessening resources continue to impact the services we provide, we must develop innovative quality approaches to supporting individuals to achieve ultimate independence, fulfillment, and acceptance in the communities in which they live.”

Ms. Cadovius will be serving as President for the next two years and spent the last two years as the First Vice President. She also is a Region X (New England, NY, and Eastern Canada) Board Member and Nationally she is on the Gerontology Division Executive Committee. Ms. Cadovius has been involved with AAIDD for over 6 years and put together their technology conference last fall that was held at Ability Beyond Disability. The presentation was co-hosted with CT AAIDD and the Department of Developmental Services called “A Home For All Of Us” and focused on Ability Beyond Disability’s reconfiguration project. Additionally, Ms. Cadovius has also written an article for the Gerontology Division Newsletter for AAIDD speaking to the aging challenges and reconfiguration ideas.

Ability Beyond Disability is a 501{c} (3) organization headquartered in Bethel, Conn. and Mount Kisco, N.Y. It provides a wide range of services for over 2,000 people with a disability that inhibits their activities of daily living -- including numerous residential alternatives, employment training, career counseling, job placement services, cognitive and life skills instruction, clinical and therapeutic support, and volunteer and recreational activities. Today, its services extend far beyond the Danbury community into much of Connecticut and the Hudson Valley, New York. For more information about Ability Beyond Disability go to www.abilitybeyonddisability.org.