A-Z to
Deafblindness
Ability Maine
Maine's Online News Magazine & Resource
Guide for People With Disabilities.
ADAPT
Focuses on promoting services in the
community instead of warehousing people
with disabilities in institutions & nursing
homes.
American Association
of People
with Disabilities
Largest national nonprofit cross-disability
member organization in the United States.
American Council of the Blind
Strives to improve the well-being of all
blind & visually impaired people.
Americans with
Disabilities Act
ARC of the United
States
The national organization of and for
people with
mental retardation
& related developmental disabilities
& their families
The Boulevard
Resource directory of disability
products & services.
BrailleJail
Leading provider of web-based
communication learning tools for the
visually impaired, their friends &
family.
Offers the ability to learn
blindness
related subjects such
as Braille at
your own pace. The
site is free, but
does require
registration.
Brighter
Futures Web Ring
A ring of sites dedicated to promoting
brighter futures
for children with
all types of special needs
& disability awareness
Canine Companions for
Independence
DanceAbility
"The purpose of Joint Forces & the DanceAbility
Project is to encourage the evolution &
performance of dance & to cultivate a
"common ground" that allows all individuals
to develop creatively. DanceAbility helps
eliminate the prejudice that inhibits artistic &
cultural diversity through performance,
communication & education. "We came with
our sneakers, our canes, our wheelchairs, our
2 left feet, our bodies we see as too short, too fat,
too skinny, too something & we danced. By God,
every sub-atomic particle of us danced in ways we
could not have believed." - Bjo Ashwell, disabled
DanceAbility workshop participant."
Disability.gov
U.S. federal resources resources,
programs &
services for
the disabled.
DO-IT
Program
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking,
& Technology.
Entry Point!
Entry Point! is a program of the
American Association
for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)
offering
Outstanding Internship
Opportunities for Students with
Disabilities in Science, Engineering,
Mathematics, & Computer Science
Foundation
Fighting Blindness
Mission is to find the causes, treatments,
preventions, & cures for retinitis pigmentosa
(RP), macular degeneration, Usher
syndrome and the entire spectrum of
retinal degenerative diseases.
Half the
Planet.com
Internet portal for the disability
community.
HandSpeak
A practical sign language online
dictionary.
HotBraille.com
Provider of web-based communication
tools for the visually impaired, their friends
& family. Here you can send Braille letters,
learn the Braille alphabet, meet new people,
& connect with over 14,000 other
HotBraille members.
Independent Living
Research
Utilization
National center for information,
training, research,& technical
assistance in independent living.
Independent Living
USA
Mainstream
Online
Produced by, for and about people with
disabilities. Covers news & current affairs,
new products & technology, profiles of
movers & shakers, education, employment,
sexuality & relationships, housing,
transportation, travel & recreation.
Mobility Information
USA
Mission is to empower people with
disabilities around the world through
international exchange, information,
technical assistance and training, &
to ensure the inclusion of people with
disabilities in international exchange
& development programs.
Monroe County Women's
Disability Network
(MCWDN)
"Designed as a one-stop shopping web
source to get information about a variety
of disabilities, conditions and diseases."
National Disabled Students Union
"National, cross-disability, student
organization. We recognize all disabled
people - those with traditionally recognized
disabilities and those who have often been left
out of the movement - as our brothers & sisters,
& we recognize all students - those who work to
learn, whether or not they are at recognized
schools - as our colleagues."
The National Federation of the
Blind
National
Information Center for
Children and Youth with Disabilities
National Sports
Center for the Disabled
Non-profit organization providing
recreation for children
& adults
with disabilities.
The New Paradigm of Disability:
A Bibliography
Not Fade Away- One man's journey
into blindness
Our-Kids
Support for Parents and Caregivers
of Children with Disabilities.
PACER Center
Mission is to expand opportunities &
enhance the quality of life of children
& young adults with disabilities & their
families, based on the concept of parents
helping parents. With assistance to
individual families, workshops, & materials
for parents and professionals, & leadership
in securing a free and appropriate
public education for all children,
PACER's work affects and encourages
families in Minnesota and across the nation.
Parents Helping
Parents
Helping children with special needs
receive the
resources,
love, hope,
respect, heath care,
education &
other services
they need to achieve
their full potential by providing them
with strong
families and dedicated
professionals to serve them.
Royal National
Institute for the Blind
Yahoo:
Disabilities
access.adobe.com
Designed to help people with visual
disabilities
work more effectively
with Acrobat
software
& Adobe
PDF files.
Apple
Computer:
Disability Resources
Audio-Tips
Baldi
Software tool that combines 3D
animation with
speech recognition
& audiovisual generation of speech
to help deaf students develop &
practice language
skills such as
vocabulary, reading, spelling
& speech production.
Center for Applied
Special
Technology
Not-for-profit organization helping
expand educational opportunities
for individuals with disabilities
through the development &
innovative uses of technology
Center for
Spoken Language
Understanding @ OGI
Research center that focuses on
Spoken
Language
Technologies for
helping people with visual, speech,
or learning problems & other
applications.
Cognitive Concepts: Earobics
Deaf Gamers
Reviews PC, Xbox, GameCube,
GBA & other vide games from
the deaf persons perspective.
"Text/visual feedback is a key
issue for a deaf person & many has
the occasion been when a deaf games
player has purchased a game only to
find no visual feedback or very little
of it (this can ruin the game for them)."
IBM
Accessibility Center
Microsoft
Accessibility
Nuance: Dragon
Naturally Speaking
Speech recognition software
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Scientific Learning
Corporation
Trace
Center
The Trace Research & Development
Center is a part of the College
of
Engineering,
University
of Wisconsin
Madison. Founded in 1971, Trace
has been a pioneer in the field of
technology & disability.
Vcom3D
Produces SigningAvatar™ software
that uses
computer-generated,
three dimensional
characters
called "avatars", to communicate
in sign language with facial
expressions.
