The US National Council on Disabilities has released a report called "Effective Emergency Management: Making Improvements for Communities and People with Disabilities. This report highlights the challenges that persons with disabilities face during a disaster and the planning processes required to ensure their safety during emergencies.
There are many beneficial points within the document which can be found at the link below.
Note: in an earlier blog entry we identified the deaf and hard of hearing as a planning focus including a position paper by the Canadian Hearing Society - scroll down to May 2009.
