General Disability Sites:

• AAMR Home Page The oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization of professionals and others concerned about mental retardation and related disabilities. AAMR's mission is to advance the knowledge and skills of professionals in the field of mental retardation by exchanging information and ideas.
• 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.
• Achoo On-line Healthcare Services - Home Page One of the greatest hurdles for the healthcare sector is the sheer volume of information available through the Internet. Achoo acts as a jump point and information resource for the medical community and all other Internet users interested in healthcare information.
• Action Without Borders Action Without Borders is a global network of individuals and organizations sharing ideas, information and resources to help build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. Action Without Borders works through the Internet and through local chapters to promote and facilitate collaboration, volunteerism and investment in support of these goals.
• Adjustment To Blindness And Visual Impairment "A unique counseling and educational forum for the frank discussion of blindness related issues."
• ALLEN SHEA & ASSOCIATES Provides professional services in the area of planning, research, training, materials development, and evaluation within the field of human services with an emphasis on developmental disabilities. Projects, Links, Families. Life Quality, Articles, Friends, Managed Care.
• 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.
• The ARC With more than 1,100 affiliated chapters and 140,000 members across the United States, The Arc (formerly Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States) is the country's largest voluntary organization committed to the welfare of all children and adults with mental retardation and their families.
• The ARC's Disability-Related Resources on the Web Chapters of The Arc, Additional Sources of Information Regarding Mental Retardation/Developmental Disability, Parenting Information and Support, Disability Resource Lists and Directories, Other National Disability Organizations, International Disability Organizations, Assistive Technology, Software and Electronic Information, Health Promotion and Disability Prevention, Consulting and Commercial Disability-Related Sites, Universities and University Based Programs, Disability Service Providers, Federally Funded Projects on Mental Retardation and Related Disability Issues, Information on Disability Legislation Federal Agencies, Organizational and Grant Resources.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Disability Resource on the Internet Information is power! Most people with disabilities can live, learn, love, work and play independently and in the mainstream of society, but they often need information to achieve their goals: information about legal rights, financial resources, assistive technology, employment opportunities, housing modifications, childrearing and educational options, transportation and mobility services, and more. This information is available from a wide variety of resources - nonprofit organizations, government agencies, books, pamphlets, magazines, videotapes, and online - often at little or no cost. Finding it, however, isn't always so easy. Disability Resources is a nonprofit organization that monitors, reviews, and reports on these resources every day. We disseminate information about them to libraries, disability organizations, health and social service professionals, consumers and family members, through:
• Disabled Peoples International (DPI) Web Page Disabled Peoples' International is a network of national organizations or assemblies of disabled people, established to promote human rights of disabled people through full participation, equalization of opportunity and development.
• Down Syndrome: Health Issues Author's note: I'm a pediatrician and the father of Avi, 12 years old, and Nathan, 15 years old. Avi has Down Syndrome ("DS" for short) and has inspired me to write these essays about children with DS for other parents. I have put them here for general reading. You may E-mail me with any questions about these essays. I have also included some other pediatric items of interest for parents.
• 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.
• FUNDACIÓ CATALANA SÍNDROME DE DOWN (FCSD) "The goal is, on the one hand to gather current medical knowledge on Down syndrome; and on the other hand, to discuss those psychopedagogical issues that may be of practical interest to general pediatricians and specialists due to its relation with the medical field."
• Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) FES is a means of producing contractions in muscles, paralysed due to central nervous system lesions, by means of electrical stimulation. Applications are found in stroke, spinal cord injury, head injury, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. The electrical stimulation is applied either by skin surface electrodes or by implanted electrodes. The department has a number of projects developing its own techniques or assessing devices produced elsewhere. Some of the developments have progressed from research to clinical service.
• Great Lakes Area Regional Center for Deafblind Education (GLARCDBE) This project provides technical assistance to families, educational personnel, and other service providers through training efforts and the dissemination of information on innovative approaches to educating children and youth with dual-sensory impairments.
• Granite State Independent Living New Hampshire's only community based, cross disability, and consumer controlled independent living center. GSIL provides four core services of; Information & Referral (I&R), Peer Support & Counseling, Skills Training, and Individual & Systems Advocacy. GSIL also provides; A Personal Care Attendant Program <( GSIL staff provides evaluation, skills training and on-going support to enable eligible consumers to set up and manage their own PCA systems.), Transportation, (GSIL maintains five wheelchair accessible vans), Social and Recreational Programs, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services, Youth Mentor Program. GSILF also provides a range of services to the community including: Accessibility Services and Technical Assistance, Mental Health Contract, and Certified Interpreter Referral Services.
• Healthfinder Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health information web site from the United States government. healthfinder can lead you to selected online publications, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable health information for the public. The information you find can help you make better health choices for yourself and your family.
• HandiNet Contains: Current Events, Disability Links, HandiNet Resources, HandiNet Classified Page, Handinet Downloads, Sign Up For Listservs.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Iowa Department for the Blind This web site is part of the Department's commitment to providing information and services to Iowans who are blind. It is also intended to educate the public that with a positive attitude about blindness, proper training, and opportunity anyone can reduce blindness to a physical nuisance. | Aids and Devices. | ASSIST With Windows. | Business Enterprises Program. | Independent Living. | Library. | Laws & Proclamations. | Orientation Center. | Vocational Rehabilitation. | Volunteering. | F A Qs | Upcoming Events. | Related Internet Sites. | Web Accessibility Features & Tips.
• Jim Lubin's Home Page Many interesting links.
• 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.
• MedMarket An easy to use directory designed, dedicated and committed to providing information on products and services in 6 different categories.
• MedSupport MedSupport International is dedicated to educating and assisting persons with disabilities, their caregivers and their families. We offer caring, support, and information through a variety of interactive moderated forums and chat areas as well as a monthly newsletter and a wide range of "links" to other sources of information.
• 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 Journals from The Lancet.
• 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 Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) is a national, member-driven organization consisting of 55 State and Territorial Councils. NACDD places high value on meaningful participation and contribution by Council members and staff of all Member Councils, and we advocate and continually work towards positive system change on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
• 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 The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the devastating effects of MS. The Society and its network of chapters nationwide promote research, educate, advocate on critical issues, and organize a wide range of programs— including support for the newly diagnosed and those living with MS over time.
• The New Hampshire Challenge, Disability Issues From a Family Perspective The New Hampshire Challenge was founded 9 years ago, has a paper readership in excess of 8,000, and now joins other newspapers with its own URL. The New Hampshire Challenge works for justice involving citizens with disabilities in New Hampshire.
• Northamptonshire People First An organisation of people with learning difficulties speaking up for ourselves! We are run and controlled by people with learning difficulties.
• 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.
• Parents with Disabilities Online Greetings! Welcome to Parents with Disabilities Online! We've been providing information, support and resources to parents with disabilities since 1996, when we were known as Diana Michelle's Home Page: The Internet's One-stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities. For too long, people with disabilities had been told that having families of our own was not an option. The truth is, though, that we have always been parents, and as our society evolves, more and more of us will have access to that opportunity. 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, this site is for you. We hope that this page is a good place to start on your own journey toward independent parenting
• The PeopleNet DisAbility DateNet Home page *** WARNING! This Home Page is for adults 18 and over *** I've created this home page so men and women with disabilities like myself can freely read about love, relationships, and sexuality the way we experience them. This home page will always be frank and honest; its focus will be on love. My goal is to put the control of our love lives back into our hands and take it out of the hands of the purveyors of empty promises and profit; namely, those who would exploit us when it comes to finding love, especially in cyberspace. Remember, this home page it by and for disabled adults wanting to learn more about love, sexuality, and relationships -- and maybe find that special someone. Here you can read poems, articles, and short stories by, for and about disabled adults. Every piece is about love, romance, or sexuality. Check out the information on dating services which do not discriminate against adults with disabilities. You can even place a personal ad on-line and off line.
• 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.
• Sociology of Disability The SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists. It has been designed from a Dutch point of view, but it has a much broader horizon - it gives access to the European and world wide scene of academic sociology. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet. The enormity and constantly changing nature of the Internet makes it impossible to develop a definitive and comprehensive listing. That's why the SocioSite will always be 'under construction'.
• Spinal Cord Injury Resources
• State of the States in Developmental Disabilities Established in 1982 to investigate the determinants of public spending for mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DD) services, the project maintains a 20-year longitudinal record of revenue, spending, and programmatic trends in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Analysis of the rich detail of the data base reveals the impact over time of federal and state fiscal policy, and illustrates important service delivery trends in the states in community living, public and private residential institutions, family support, supported employment, supported living, Medicaid Waivers, demographics, and related areas.
• Teresa Martin's Personal WEB Page I'm a hemipelvectomy amputee. On March 29,1996, I had a hemipelvectomy, for those of you that don't know what that is... I lost the left side of my pelvis, left side if my tail bone and the left side of the L4 and L5 vertebrae. All of it to one of the many cancers that are out there.
• 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-pathalogical and empowering.
• Toward Independent Living and Learning (TILL), Inc. Toward Independent Living and Learning (TILL), Inc., is a private, not-for-profit human service agency established in 1980. Its mission is to develop and operate innovative programs and services to meet the needs of individuals of all ages who have unique needs, including mental retardation, mental health needs, physical handicaps, learning disabilities, emotional problems, brain injury and other developmental disabilities. TILL is a multi-service agency which provides a comprehensive range of services throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
• Toward Maximum Independence TMI is a California non-profit public-benefit corporation which has supported people with disabilities since 1981. The agency began as an Independent Living Service, teaching people sophisticated skills such as banking, budgeting, and meal planning and preparation. Growing needs have led the agency to expand its array of supports. Three major areas comprise TMI's program services and supports. These include Community Living, Community Employment, and Family Support.
• Unicorn Quest The Kids' Typing Tutor Game for One or Two Hands.
• 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.
• Utah's Project for Inclusion Promoting Quality Inclusive Education for All.
• Westside Center for Independent Living, Inc. California
• 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