Disability Awareness Throughout the Year

Disability awareness months and days are great opportunities to get involved in your community and your child’s school to promote disability acceptance resources for kids (and for adults!). Check out this calendar of days to celebrate neurodiversity and developmental disabilities:

January

• January 4 - World Braille Day

February

• Low Vision Awareness Month

• February 15 - International Angelman Day

March

• Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
• National Developmental Disabilities Month
• Trisomy Awareness Month
• March 1 - International Wheelchair Day
• March 3 - International Dyscalculia Awareness Day
• March 21 - World Down Syndrome Day

• March 26 - Purple Day for Epilepsy

April

• Autism Acceptance Month
• Limb Loss Awareness Month
• National Deaf History Month

• April 2 - World Autism Awareness Day

May

• Mental Health Month
• National Mobility Month
• Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
• Williams Syndrome Awareness Month
• May 9 - Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
• May 14 - Apraxia Awareness Day
• May 16 - Global Accessibility Awareness Day

• May 19 - National Schizencephaly Awareness Day

June

• June 7 - Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day
• June 17 - CDKL5 Awareness Day

• June 23 - International Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day

July

• Disability Pride Month

• National Fragile X Syndrome Awareness Month

August

• August 8 - CHARGE Syndrome Awareness Day

September

• National Service Dog Month
• Cortical Vision Impairment Awareness Month
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Spectrum Awareness Month

• September 23 - International Day of Sign Languages

October

• Dyslexia Awareness Month
• Down Syndrome Awareness Month
• Learning Disabilities Awareness Month
• ADHD Awareness Month
• Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
• Sensory Processing Awareness Month
• Spina Bifida Awareness Month
• October 6 - World Cerebral Palsy Day
• October 15 - White Cane Safety Day

• October 16–20 - Invisible Disabilities Week

November

• Epilepsy Awareness Month

• November 15 - World Ohtahara Syndrome Awareness Day

December

• December 3 - National Phenylketonuria Awareness Day
• December 12 - International Day of People with Disabilities

Learn more and find diagnosis-specific support organizations in our list of Most Common Developmental Disability Diagnoses.