Disability

General Resources

• Ability Magazine
  Canada's Cross Disability Magazine. Contains full text of currens and back issues of the magazine. It also contains a link collection and resources.

• Alberta's Grassroots, Cross-Disability Organization (ACCD)
  An organisation which works with cross disability community in Alberta to enable people with disabilities to be an active part of the community. The guiding principles are equality, integration, individuality, accountability and full participation. ACCD organizes several community projects. The site offers a newsletter and an annual report.

• Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
  A network of interdisciplinary centers advancing policy and practice for and with individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families and communities.

• Beschermde Werkplaats Mechelen
  A workplace for disabled people in Belgium.

• Birmingham Disability Resource Centre (DRC)
  An initiative of a local disability rights organisation in England - the Birmingham Disability Rights Group (BDRG). They argue that disabled people's experience of discrimination and social inequality often result in the denial of the opportunity and right of disabled people to speak on their own behalf and take their own decisions. They challenge the causes behind these experiences of social exclusion and inequalities. They encourage disabled people to speak out for themselves, become positive about their owen abilities and lifestyles and be supported in seeking ways to reduce or remove disabling barriers which stop them achieving full civil and human rights. The DRC is an importan part in the overall strategy of increasing disabled people's access to mainstream activities. The site provides information on different aspects of disabilities and disabled people, on employment problems and possibilities, and useful goods and services, on education, transport and enforcement.

• Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE)
  CAE is committed to the provision of buildings and places which are accessible to all users, including disabled and older people, and to the enhancement of quality in design. The centre is a technical information training and consultancy resource for the construction industry, providers of goods and services, the care professions and disabled people. It also operates as a forum for collaborative dialogue between providers and users on how the built environment can best be shaped to be accessible to all. The site covers a wide range of topics on the relation between built environment and disability.

• Center for Disability Studies - University of Hawaii
  The mission of the center is to support the quality of life, inclusion, and empowerment of all persons with disabilities and their families through partnerships in training, service, evaluation, research, dissemination, and technical assistance. The site contains descriptions of several projects of the center. It also contains news, information on conferences, a discussion list, and an - American concentrated - list of links.

• CG Raad (Chronisch Zieken en Gehandicapten Radd Nederland)
  The Dutch Council of the Chronically Ill and the Disabled.

• Disability & Society
  An international journal providing a focus for debate about such issues as human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices. Editor: Len Barton (University of Sheffield, UK). You will only get the table of contents for free.

• Disability India Journal [full text]
  Bi-monthly journal on issues and trends in disability care, perspectives and research in India. Meant for persons with disability, service providers, professionals and caregivers.

• Disability Research Resources
  With special attention for disabled women. Editor: Barbara Robertson.

• Disability Rights Activist
  Information for people who are interested in the rights of disabled people to work for those rights. Editor: Adrienne Rubin Barhydt (USA).

• Disabled Peoples' International
  Aims at the full participation of all disabled people in the mainstream of life, particularly those in developing countries.

• Dyslexia Institute
  Information and advice from the dislexia institute in the UK.

• Dyslexie & Dyscalculie
  Dyslexia network in the Netherlands. Research and treatment institutes for dyslexia and other language related problems.

• Dyslexia Online
  A selection of articles on dyslexia. Learn about the symptoms, possible causes, and ways to prevent this learning disorder.

• EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information
  An Affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. Its mission is to serve as a resource to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. EASI gathers information about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spreads that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace. Their membership is composed of people from colleges, universities, business and other institutions.

• Emancipatie Educatie Gehandicapte Arbeidskrachten (EEGA)
  Emancipation and Education for Disabled Labor Forces in the Netherlands.

• Epitelio Network
  Excluded People Integration by the use of Telematic Innovative Opportunities. An European project oriented to the design, development and validation of an Internet-based telematics platform to support individuals, agencies and networks concerned with the promotion of self-emloyment and teleworking in the fight against social exclusion.

• Exhale
  A page designed to serve teens with disabilities. "Quit holding your breath - it's time to exhale".

• Gladnet
  Global Applied Disability Research Network for Employment and Training.

• Handicap-nl
  Information for disabled people in the Netherlands.

• Herefordshire DIAL (Disablement Information Advice Line)
  A free, impartial and confidential service providing information, advice, and in some cases, practical help; a focal point of contact for the multitude of questions which can confront a person with a disability.

• Inclusion Network
  Inclusion is the act of engaging people with disabilities in all our daily activities - at school, at work, at home and in the community. The goal of the Inclusion Network is to make the Greater Cincinnati community the most livable community for people with disabilities in the United States. The Network is composed of people with disabilities, civic and business leaders, human service professionals, and individuals interested in promoting inclusion.

• Indie: Disablity Search Engine
  A comprehensive resource for persons with disabilities worldwide. The database is searchable by category or keyword.

• Information and Advice for Disabled People
  In the United Kingdom there are more than one hundred DIALs (Disablement Information and Advice Lines) which provide information and advice that makes a difference to thousands of people with disabilities. The site provides information about the DIAL network and their services.

• Information Society disAbilities Challenge (ISDAC)
  They want to challenge Europe and its nations to make the Information Society fully accessible to people with disabilities (PwD), and challenge people with disabilities to demonstrate their abilities in an Information Society context by playing an active role in building a fully accessible Information Society in Europe.

• InternAUT
  Developing self-advocacy for people living with autism - A group of autistic people are collaborating online to provide mutual support to people who have this condition, which is much misunderstood and can lead to exclusion from society. Please visit the site and consider what you might do to help. You can also visit the alt.support.autism newsgroup.

• Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC)
  An index of resources for children with disabilities.

• Limbless Association
  Provides information, advice and support for people of all ages whoe are without one or more limbs. It has a UK-wide network of volunteer visitors who are all amputees themselves, offering support and encouragement to prespective amputees, carers and those already trying to come to terms with limb loss or deficiency. The site contains a quarterly magazine Step Forward.

• Parenting with a Disability
  A bulletin board for parents parenting special needs kids. Parents who have the disability can meet others and share ideas and experiences. This bulletin board is open for topics about how disabled parents manage at home or at work; we hope you will use this board to share tips, encouragement, and support.

• People with Special Needs
  Apple Computer's Disability Connection provides a guide to the world of Macintosh computing for individuals with disabilities.

• Parents with Disabilities Online
  A guide to parenting resources for people with disabilities. Editor: Trish and John Day

• Payne, Holly (North Georgia College & State University, USA)
  Disability as a Lifestyle, Not as a Handicap
  This paper addresses disability in modern American society. In years past, disabled individuals were pitied or even oftentimes scorned. Recently, with the disability rights movement, people with "handicaps" have stepped forward to take over their own lives. They have learned that they can have "normal" lives...have educations, careers, personal relationships, marriages, families, and the list goes on.

• Ragged Edge
  The online edition of Ragged Edge magazine. Writing and thinking about our most "ragged edge" issues: assisted suicide, long-term care, rights, access. Full text articles.

• Servidor Web
  Asociación para la Promoción Minusválido.

• Socioal Security Disability Secrets
  Provides a detailed and indepth explanation of the Social Security Disability Process. In addition to providing the best overview of how the system actually works, the sites answers numerous questions which most claimants inevitably have. Written by a Disability Examiner, Tim Moore.

• Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
  A nonprofit scientific and educational organization composed of social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, providers, and agency personnel concerned with people with disabilities. The purpose of SDS is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and to engage in dialogues that cut across disciplinary backgrounds and substantive concerns. SDS is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

• Stichting Welzijn Gehandicapten Nederland (SWGN)
  Association for the mental and social welfare of disabled people in the Netherlands.

• Through the Looking Glass (TLG)
  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.

• W3C Accessibility Developments
  The emergence of the WWW has made it possible for individuals with appropriate computer and telecommunications equipment to interact as never before. The Web is the stepping stone, the infrastructure that will pave the way for next generations interfaces. As with any new interface, challenges...sometimes barriers, are presented to people with disabilities. This site is devoted by the W3C to focus on the developments and issues as they relate to implementing accessibility to the Web for people with disabilities.

• WebABLE - Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation.
  A Web directory for disability-related internet resources. The Accessibility database list hundreds of internet based resources on accessibility.

• Yourable
  A worldwide information and news service for all disabled people and people with an interest in disability issues. It contains a vast range of information on just about every subject you can think of.

Hearing Disability: Deaf and Hearing Impaired

• DeafLife
  A magazine for the deaf community.

• Deaf Linx
  A page setup by Amy Roach to link you to deafness-related sites.

• Deafness/Hard of Hearing
  About.com Guide editor: Jamie Berke.

• Deaf Resource Library
  A collection of reference material and links intended to educate and informa people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United Stads, as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics. Created by Karen Nakamura (Department of Anthropology at Yale University, USA).

• Deafscape
  An American website that encompasses information for those connected to or interested in the deaf world.

• Deaf Watch
  Information on all aspects of deaf and hard hearing. people.

• Dutch Association for Hearing Impaired
  Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Slechthorenden (NVVS). Includes a guide with all deaf related Dutch sites.

• Ensink, R.J.H. [1999] (Nijmegen University, Netherlands)
  Genetic hearing impairment: a clinical study of various dominat inhereted subtypes
  Summary and conclusion of a PhD thesis written.

• Graaf, R. de / Bijl, R. (Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands)
  Pychological well-being of deaf and severe hard-of-hearing adults
  In the Netherlands an estimated 10,000-13,000 people live with a severe auditive handicap. In order to describe the prevalence of psychological well-being and its determinants, a study was carried out among 523 deaf and severe hard of hearing adults.

• Hearing Concern
  The organization represents the interests of Britain's 8 million hard of hearing people.

• Hearnet
  H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers) is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels which can lead to permanent, and sometime debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus. they are there for musicians, music fans, and anyone needing help with their hearing.

• Independent Hearing Aid Information
  Editor: Robert J. Olsson, audiologist for the California Tinnitus Assessment Center.

• International Federation of Hard Hearing People (IFHOH)
  The federation consists of National Associations of and for hard of hearing and late deafened people, and parents' and professional organizations.

• Mark Ross (New York, USA)
  Papers on the numerous problems faced by people with hearing impairments. Try this paper: Personal and Social Identity of Hard Hearing People

• Papers on hearing related issues - IFHOH

• Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Hearing Enhancement
  A project that conducts research programs that promote technological solutions to problems confronting people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

• Royal Association for Deaf People - UK

• SayWhatClub (SWC)
  Essays, links and resources, presented by the SayWhatClub. The SayWhatClub is an on-line group of late-deafened and hard of hearing and other interested folks who provide support and encouragement to each other through e-mail. Their goal is to provide a friendly, good-humored place to exchange conversation, information, advice, deep thoughts, humor, tall tales, and chit chat. They hope that members will get to know each other and develop an on-line "community feeling."

• Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc (SHHH)
  A non-profit educational organization, dedicated to the well-being of people of all ages and communication styles who do not hear well, their relatives and fiends. The SHHH is the largest international consumer organization of its kind.

Visual Disability: blind and visually impaired

• American Council of the Blind (ACB)

• Assistive Media
  On-line audio solution designed for persons with reading access barriers.

• Blindness Resource Center
  An annotated directory of sites dealing with internet access for the blind. The categories include accessible web design, Lynx, net-tamer, Unix, Windows and Java Access, and Access Resources. Sponsored and maintained by the New York Institute for Special Education.

• Braille Forum
  The monthly magazine of the ACB (American Council of the Blind).

• Braille: History, Use and Current Research - ACB

• Braille Monitor
  The voice of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) in the USA. A monthly journal that covers the events and activities of the National Federation of the Blind and addresses the many issues and concerns of the blind.

• Making the Web Accessible for the Blind and Visually Impaired by Mike Paciello.

• Resources for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons - ACB

• visueelgehandicapten.pagina.nl
  A collection of links to organizations of blind and seeing impaired people in the Netherlands.

• Washington Taling Book & Braille Library - Seattle Public Library, USA.

Mental/Learning Disabilities

• Atttention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)
  Provides education, research, and public advocacy on AD/HD issues.

• The Arc of Dallas
  An interactive resource on mental retardation and other developmental disabilities.

• Children And Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADDD).
  A non-profit organization from Panama City, Florida works to improve the lives of people with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder through education, advocacy, and support.

• Dr. Diane
  Information on brain injury, concussion, stroke, TBI, brain tumor, and MS symptom resources.

• Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute (KPI)
  Provides resources and support to adults and children with ADD/LD to become self-advocates and reach their true potential. KPI publishes a bimonthly newsletter, The ADDventurer, and a semi-annual research R&D Report for members.

• LD Online
  The interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children.

• LD Pride Online
  An interactive community resource for youth and adults with learning disabilities (LD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD).

• Mental Help Net (MHN)
  A comprehensive source of inline mental health information, news and resources.

• Mental Health Resources (SocioSite)

Reference Sites

• Disabilities
  Resources from Yahoo!

• Disablity on the Internet
  A directory of handicap related resources available on the net; also containing some links to general interest sites. Compiled by: Gruppo Volontariato Assistenza Handicappati G.V.A., Italy.

• disABILITY Information and Resources
  A personal page created by Jim Lubin.

• Disability-Related Resources on the Web
  Presented by The Arc, a national organization on mental retardation in the USA.

• DisAbility Web Sites
  Links to research centers, educational sites, associations, journals, products, and government and legal services. From: The National Home Of Your Own Alliance (NHOYO).

• Information Resources for People with Disabilities in Japan
  Editor: Iwao Kobayashi.

• Leefwijzer
  A Dutch link collection created by and for disabled people.

• Untangling the Web
  A disability-related resources menu, founded by Steven L. Fullmer, who died of cancer in 1998.

Editor	dr. Albert Benschop Social & Behavioral Studies University of Amsterdam
Created	July, 1996
Last modified	19th December, 2005