General Disability
Sites:
- Ability A
Web Site that gives access to users with a disability, or limited
skills, while still being able to maintain the sites attractiveness to
all users. An indexed system of 100's of pages giving information and
providing 1000's of links in a format that will help over come most
problems faced by the disabled users and making it incredibly simple to
be connected to relevant sites around the world.
- Adjustment
To Blindness And Visual Impairment "A unique counseling and
educational forum for the frank discussion of blindness related
issues."
- The American
Foundation for the Blind "American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), a
U.S. nonprofit organization enabling blind or visually impaired people
to achieve equality and access. Provides information and referrals about
living with visual impairment. Helen Keller devoted over 40 years of her
life to AFB."
- AMERICAN DISABLED
for ATTENDANT PROGRAMS TODAY (ADAPT) Nationally ADAPT focuses on
promoting services in the community instead of warehousing people with
disabilities in institutions and nursing homes. Attendant services (help
with things like eating, dressing, toileting, moving from wheelchair to
bed, etc.) are the cornerstone to community based services for people
with severe disabilities. ADAPT is working to get 25% of the Medicaid
long term care funds redirected to pay for a national, mandated
attendant services program.
- Amputee-Online.com
The Online Resource for Amputees. Amputee WEB Site. Amputation Online
magazine. Amputee Listserv. Personal WEB Pages. Commercial WEB Pages.
Non - Profit WEB Pages. Special Projects.
- Axis Disability
Rights Website This Website is operated by Norman Kunc & Emma
Van der Klift of Axis Consultation & Training Ltd. and is dedicated
to the distribution of information concerning disability rights. Most of
our time is spent speaking and consulting. As a result, we won't be
updating this site a whole lot. The good news is that a number of our
friends and colleagues will be looking after separate sections of the
site, so when we do update it, the amount of new info should be
substantial.
- The
Blindness Resource Center Includes: Access to the Internet and Web:
Lynx, Windows & Universal Access, Braille: Literacy, Translators,
History & Advocacy, Deaf-Blind/Hearing Disability Resources, Eye
Diseases and Conditions, History of Reading Codes for the Blind, On-Line
Information: libraries, newspapers & electronic texts, Organizations
Page: national - international, Research and Innovation, Resource Sites
on Blindness, Resources Sites on Disabilities-Generic, University
Programs for Persons with Disabilities, Vendors Specializing in
Technology for the Blind, Web Homepages of the Blind Community, What's
New on the Web.
- The Boulevard A
Disability and Healthcare site dedicated to providing valuable
information about quality products and services available to Healthcare
professionals and individuals with disabilities.
- Buckmasters'
Disabled Sportsmen's Resources It is Buckmasters' goal to create the
most comprehensive, extensive and helpful resource for disabled
sportsmen and women on the world wide web. This site includes (or will
soon) information on adaptive equipment, accessible places in each state
to hunt, fish and camp, information on guides and outfitters and other
resources that physically challenged people will find useful. We welcome
any pertinent information that anyone would like to add to our site.
- Caregivers
- The Center
on Human Policy (CHP) The Center on Human Policy (CHP) is a Syracuse
University based policy, research, and advocacy organization involved in
the national movement to insure the rights of people with disabilities.
Since its founding, the Center has been involved in the study and
promotion of open settings (inclusive community opportunities) for
people with disabilities.
- Connections for
Information and Resources on Community Living (CIRCL) CIRCL's
mission is to create opportunities for building and sharing individual,
organizational and community strengths in supported living.
- Craig
Hospital Craig Hospital in Denver has long been recognized as a
national center of excellence in the specialty rehabilitation and
research for patients with spinal cord and brain injury. Craig has
treated more than 22,000 patients since 1956__more than any other single
facility in the world__and has been rated every year in the Top Ten
Rehabilitation Hospitals by US News and World Report since the ratings
began. Patients come to Craig each year from all over the U.S. and the
world to take advantage of our expertise and experience.
- Crotched Mountain
Foundation, New Hampshire Serves children and adults who are
physically, emotionally or intellectually challenged. Our therapy,
education and support services -- including a lifetime of care through
community-based subsidiaries -- empowers them to attain the highest
possible degree of physical, emotional and social independence.
- Deafness/Hard
of Hearing - Welcome from the Mining Company We are here to save
your time. I will search the Internet for information on issues and
topics in the deaf /hoh community, with special attention to what is
new, noteworthy, or of particular value. Individual web pages will also
be organized by topic in an online resource of deaf/hoh web sites. If
there is a deaf/hoh topic you need info on, please let me know and I
will find it for you and develop a resource page on the topic.
- DeafWatch
Homepage and Newsletter "The Ultimate Deaf Resource Center"
- Deaf World
Web Deaf World Web is the largest and leading multi-purpose deaf
Website, providing deaf-related information on all subjects from
Socio-Cultural Resources to References around the world.
- Diana
Michelle's Home Page I created this page (with help from Mommy and
Daddy) to share the resources that we found for making baby and child
care accessible for parents with disabilities. If you are a parent with
a disability, a person with a disability who is planning to become a
parent, or a nondisabled partner of a disabled parent, we hope that this
page is a good place to start on your own journey toward independent
parenting.
- disAbility Infomation and
Resources Links.
- Disability Net Disability Net
is a major information and news service for all disabled people and
people with an interest in disability issues. It is a non-political
service, although some information published by groups on the service
may be of a political nature. Includes: What's New, Disability
Information, Shopping Centre, Groups, Classified, Job Centre,
Penpal/Friendship, Requests, About Disability Net,Disability Net News,
Soap Box, User Questionnaire, Sex/Personal Relationships, Arts,
Education/Training, Employment, Equipment, Holidays/Travel, Housing,
Impairment (Disability), Independent Living, Legislation/Politics,
Leisure, Other, Sport, Transport, More.
- The
Disability Resource Special Announcements, Search for Resources,
Events Calendar, Chat, Personal Pages, Book Store, Partners Business
Members, Guest Book, Subscribe Here.
- Disabled
Peoples International (DPI) Web Page The purpose of DPI is to
promote the Human Rights of People with Disabilities through full
participation, equalization of opportunity and development. DPI is a
grassroots, cross-disability network with member organizations in over
110 countries, over half of which are in the developing world.
- Down Syndrome
WWW Page Articles, Essays, Organizations Worldwide, Toy Catalogs and
more.
- Easter
Seals Today, 1.5 million Easter Seals clients - children and adults
with disabilities and their families - lead improved lives because of
one or more Easter Seals services they have received: programs for
children, vocational training and employment, and medical
rehabilitation. Services that are individualized to meet each client's
needs, family-focused to meet each family member's concerns,
outcome-oriented with a goal of enhanced physical and financial
independence, and cost-effective benefiting from charity support.
- Esmerel's
Collection of Disability Resources On these pages, you will find
lists of many disability related resources. There are literally hundreds
of well-organized links. These lists will continue to grow. Individual
pages are updated on a weekly basis. For your information and viewing
pleasure, I've arranged the resources into a variety of different
categories. Feel free to have a look.
- HalfthePlanet HalfthePlanet.com
seeks to empower people in the disability community, including their
families, friends, co-workers, and caregivers. We consider people living
with a disability to be adaptive not physically challenged or
handicapped. If you're seeking disability information and disability
technology (such as universal design, accessible design, and assistive
technology), disability research, services for people with disabilities,
or assistive devices and products for disabled people, HalfthePlanet.com
is the resource of choice.
- Institute on
Community Integration We believe that persons with developmental
disabilities should live as valued members of our communities, receiving
the services and supports they need to fully develop their potential.
Based on this belief, we conduct research and training, and share
information intended to prevent and reduce the limiting effects of
disabilities.
- INDEPENDENT LIVING
USA This INDEPENDENT LIVING USA WEBSITE is intended as a service for
individuals with disabilities, their families, providers of services,
independent living centers, and professionals. This Website is a
directory of resources for independent living. It isunderwritten by Bell
Atlantic, and is a venture of the Independent Living Center of the
Hudson Valley, Inc., the New York State Institute on Disability, Inc.,
and the Capital District Center for Independence, Inc.
- Information Access Laboratory
The Information Access Laboratory is dedicated to encouraging
students with disabilities in the sciences by eliminating barriers that
hinder their educational pursuits. Students with disabilities are
especially underrepresented in the science, engineering, and math
disciplines. Two primary reasons for this poor representation are:
attitudinal barriers and inefficient accessibility to appropriate
curriculum. Information Access addresses these issues through the
development of innovative new technologies and outreach programs.
- Institute on Independent
Living We serve self-help organizations of disabled people who work
for equal opportunities, self-determination and self-respect. We offer
training materials, technical assistance and information on personal
assistance, advocacy, access, legislation and peer support.
- JOB access
The goal of JOB access is to enable people with disabilities to enhance
their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding
employment. Due to real or perceived discrimination, these job seekers
feel they have encountered a closed door policy. By posting job
opportunities with JOB access, employers not only exhibit an open door
policy but also demonstrate their responsiveness to affirmative action
by genuinely recruiting qualified persons with disabilities.
- LD
OnLine An interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents,
teachers, and children. Includes: What's New, ABC's of LD/ADD, LD In
Depth, First Person, The LD Calendar, Audio Clips, KidZone, Finding
Help, The LD Store, Talk Back, Bulletin Boards, Search.
- L D
Resources "This site contains a variety of resources for the
learning disabilities community. But, we're generalists so the site also
includes essays on a variety of topics, reviews of things, events, and
ideas that catch our interest that we think you might want to know
about".
- Life On
Wheels: A Book on Active Wheelchair Living Written by Gary Karp, a
spinal cord paraplegic, Life On Wheels is a general guidebook to the
experience of using a wheelchair as an active, independent adult. It
demystifies the lives of people with mobility disabilities, explains how
we adapt, and how present-day culture is out of sync with the truth of
the disability experience. Chair users are full participants in modern
life, and Life On Wheels explains how it works - and more.
- Low Vision
Gateway The Low Vision Gateway was created to be your starting point
to access information on the World Wide Web related to the fields of low
vision and blindness. The purpose is not to present one approach or bias
but to provide access to all related information on the
Internet.
- MedSupport
MedSupport is dedicated to educating and assisting the disabled and
their caregivers. We offer caring, support, information as well as a
monthly newsletter and other sources of information. We strive to
provide a stress-free, flame-free online environment. We recognize that
no matter what the disability, many of the problems we must deal with on
a daily basis are the same.
- MSWatch
Dedicated to helping manage multiple sclerosis, MSWatch is one of the
largest online communities for people with MS and their CarePartners.
Members have access to the latest information and research, answers from
experts, and important tools that help manage multiple sclerosis.
- Multiple Sclerosis
Central Multiple Sclerosis Central's philosophy is to provide
pertinent and veritable information to our membership. We believe in the
importance of offering features where our members can participate in an
open and sincere manner. Since MS affects many people, individuality is
necessary and keeps the flow of communication engaging and interesting.
Our message boards afford our members the opportunity to communicate
with others, gain information, become educated, and make long lasting
friendships where comarrderie among members is evident. This is the
foundation that makes MSC so refreshing.
- The
National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils The
National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils promotes
national policy which enables individuals with developmental
disabilities the opportunity to make choices regarding the quality of
their lives and be included in the community. NADDC provides support and
assistance to member Councils. Includes: Developmental Disabilities
Councils, Public Policy, Council Resource File, email links, regional
office, staff contacts, current activities event schedule, and info on
national sister programs - UAPs and P&As.
- The National
Center on Accessibility (NCA) Located at Indiana University's
Bradford Woods, NCA provides technical assistance to organizations of
all sizes who are designing and retrofitting their leisure areas and
programs for accessibility. The NCA conducts, promotes, and facilitates
research on issues essential to accessibility. This research shapes
instruction for the nationally renowned NCA education programs conducted
at the Center and throughout the United States. The NCA Staff assists
organizations in all phases of development, encouraging understanding
and involvement, and providing the expertise to assist those designing
environments and programs to make them accessible. NCA serves
organizations working to make the arts, beaches, sports, national
monuments, resorts, amusement parks and playgrounds inclusive to all
people.
- National MS
Society For more than 55 years, the National MS Society has been one
thing people with MS can count on: on a personal level and in the public
arena. In 1946 -- before advocacy was a household word -- the National
MS Society began advocating for people with multiple sclerosis. Our
first victory came four years later: in 1950 Congress established the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Work at NINDS
impacts millions of Americans and it receives over $650 million in
federal funds annually. Nearly $60 million of that money goes directly
to MS research.
- Our-Kids
Our-Kids is a "Family" of parents, caregivers and others who are working
with children with physical and/or mental disabilities and delays. We
call the list "Our-Kids". While it isn't exactingly descriptive, it
avoids the pitfalls of labeling our kids anything but what they most
certainly are: The wonderful little people in our lives. The Our-Kids
list consist of over 800 people representing children of varying
diagnosis; everything from indefinite developmental delays and sensory
integration problems, to cerebral palsy, to rare genetic disorders. Over
35 countries are represented on the list now.
- OWL
(Orthopaedic Web Links) Patient information sub-headings:
Amputations, Arthritis, Bone Cancer, Cervical Spine, Elbow, Low Back
Pain, Foot and Ankle, Hand and Wrist, Hip, Indices and search engines,
Knee Problems, Miscellaneous Diseases, Osteoporosis, Paediatric
Orthopaedics, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy,
Sources Topic, Index (University of Washington), Shoulder, Sports
Medicine, Trauma, Unclassified Links.
- RehabTeam
Site Very informative on line handbooks for patients with SCI and
TBI and their families. Also, manuals for Providers of SCI and
TBI.
- THE RICK
HANSEN INSTITUTE the "Rick Hansen Institute" was founded by Rick
Hansen in partnership with the University of British Columbia. Our
mission is to find a cure for paralysis and to improve lifestyle for
persons with disabilities. The site also tells of Rick's historic
journey around the world in a wheelchair including an interactive map.
MOST IMPORTANT: we give out millions of dollars in research and
rehabilitation grants.
- Spinal Cord Injury:
A Medical, Rehabilitative, and General Approach This site also looks
at the effects of alcohol, especially as it applies to drinking and
driving. Other disabilities are looked at on this page including
Muscular Dystrophy, along with links to many other disabling conditions.
Read excerpts below from a book I am writing on SCI as it pertains to my
experiences as a person with an SCI.
- Spinal Cord Injury
Resources
- THINK
FIRST The mission of the THINK FIRST Foundation is to prevent brain
and spinal cord injuries through the education of individuals, community
leaders and the creators of public policy. This upbeat program educates
young people about personal vulnerability and risk taking. The message
is that you can have a fun-filled, exciting life, without hurting
yourself if you "THINK FIRST" and use your mind to protect your body.
- Through the
Looking Glass Through the Looking Glass is a community non-profit
organization which emerged from the disability independent living
movement in 1982. TLG has pioneered clinical and supportive services,
training and research serving families in which one or more members -
whether parent or child - has a disability or medical issue. TLG's
mission has been to create, demonstrate and encourage resources and
model early intervention services which are non-pathological and
empowering.
- United
Cerebral Palsy's National Homepage While this site provides
information on the programs and services of the nation's second largest
health charity, it also offers a wealth of information on a variety of
disability topics. What's New? Innovative Projects, Advocacy In Action,
Research, Resource Center, Fund Raising, How You Can Help UCP,
Marketplace, Discussion Groups, UCP Affiliates Only, Search.
- Uppity
Disability Internet Resources
- WebABLE
WebABLE!, the authoritative Web directory for disability-related
internet resources, has changed--for the better. The WebABLE! website is
now a part of the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation website. As part of
the move, WebABLE! now has a new look, better organization, and offers
much-awaited searching of its renowned directory of internet
resources.
- World Institute on
Disability (WID) The World Institute on Disability is a non-profit
public policy center dedicated to the promotion of independence and full
inclusion in society of people with disabilities. Founded in 1983 by
leaders of the Independent Living/Civil Rights Movement for people with
disabilities, WID is committed to bringing policy into action.
- The Worldwide Virtual
Community of the Disabled This website links together the Home Pages
of Disabled People. If you are disabled and have a Home Page that you
would like linked on this website, please send email to: jeffredding@home.com , you may
also sign the Guest Book and let everyone know that you were here.
(Please Note: I do no add links to commercial websites, only to the Home
Pages of individuals who list information about living with a
disability.)
- Yahoo's Society and Culture: Disabilities
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