This report's 13 chapters address disability statistics and research, major trends, statistics, civil rights, Education, health, and long-term services and supports, children and youth, employment and the workforce development system, welfare reform, housing, transportation, assistive technology and telecommunications, international affairs, and homeland security. Each chapter starts with an Introduction with background information. Chapter recounts developments of importance from the previous year. They describe the key issues likely to emerge or open for discussion in 2004 to 2005, and address long-term trends and interconnections between subject areas that NCD believes must inform this analysis. Each chapter also contains detailed recommendations, addressed to specific agencies or decision makers. The final section of the report is a compilation of the recommendations into three sub-sections directed to Congress, the Administration, and specific federal agencies and courts. (Contains 204 endnotes.)