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Ability Awareness
ABILITY Awareness is committed to increasing awareness about the skills and talents of people with disabilities, providing meaningful volunteer opportunities to people with disabilities and promoting visitability and accessibility as features that should be included in all new homes.
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| Abilityinfo.comThis site a multi-featured news, jobs, and discussion resource for students from around the world studying to support and work for individuals with disabilities. This site is also intended for professionals who work with disability issues to continue to be sharp in their knowledge. It is an innovative site, with such features as a disability news ticker for getting the best and most recent information.
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| ADAPTNationally ADAPT focuses on promoting services in the community instead of warehousing people with disabilities in institutions and nursing homes. ADAPT is working to get 25% of the Medicaid long term care funds redirected to pay for a national, mandated program where people receive care in their own homes.
ADAPT has a long history of organizing in the disability community and using civil disobedience and similar non- violent direct action tactics to achieve its goals.
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| Alliance for Technology Access
The mission of the Alliance for Technology Access is to increase the use of technology by children and adults with disabilities and functional limitations.
The ATA is a growing national network of technology resource centers, organizations, individuals and companies. ATA encourages and facilitates the empowerment of people with disabilities to participate fully in their communities.
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| American Association on Health and DisabilityThis organization supports health promotion and wellness initiatives for people with disabilities at the federal, state and local level. They work to reduce the incidence of secondary conditions in people with disabilities, as well as reduce health disparities between people with disabilities and the general population. AAHD achieves its mission through research, education, public awareness and advocacy.
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| American Association of People with Disabilities
The AAPD is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in the United States. It is dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and political empowerment for the more than 50 million Americans with disabilities. AAPD works in coalition with other disability organizations for the full implementation and enforcement of disability nondiscrimination laws, particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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| Center for Research on Women with DisabilitiesThe mission of the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities is to promote, develop, and disseminate information to improve the health and expand the life choices of women with disabilities. CROWD was established in 1993 in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, under the direction of Margaret A. Nosek, Ph.D. Its formation was inspired by the outpouring of support from women with disabilities around the nation in response to the announcement of the team's first federally-funded study of women's issues.
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| Disability Resources, Inc.Disability Resources, Inc.
This is a nonprofit organization that promotes awareness and availability of information that helps the disabled live independantly. They have a newsletter, Disability Resources Monthly, that reports on the resources they find. Their website has an On-Line Guide, which lists disability resources on the web.
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| Disability Rights AdvocatesDRA is a non-profit legal center whose mission is to ensure dignity, equality, and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities throughout the United States and worldwide. Their national advocacy work includes class action litigation on behalf of people with all types of disabilities. As a result of these efforts, DRA has made thousands of facilities throughout the country accessible and has enforced access rights for millions of people with disabilities in many key areas of life. DRA also engages in advocacy focused on opening up access to schools, the professions and health care. They publishs a periodic statistical report, Disability Watch, that analyzes the many barriers and emerging issues facing people with disabilities. DRA also publishes various "Know Your Rights" handbooks designed to educate and assist people with disabilities in knowing and enforcing their civil rights.
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| Disabled Online Disabled Online is dedicated to providing the best content for people with disabilities, their families, and friends. There are links to websites and vendors Disabled Online has approved, and Disabled Online Public Community Forums where people can post topics and respond to questions from other disabled users and their friends, family and co-workers. Disabled Online has a Classifieds section where members of the disabled community can post their items for sale, job postings, vehicles, or resumes. Disabled Online also has Chat Rooms (you will need to register first on the forum) powered by X7 where members can chat in public rooms, create their own rooms and join in on social chat from people all around the world.
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| Disabled Peoples' InternationalDisabled 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.
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| FinAid FinAid is a comprehensive site the web for students looking for ways to finance their education. Established in the fall of 1994 as a public service, The site has grown into the most comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools -- on or off the web. This link to the website is a page for finding information about scholarships and fellowships for students with disabilities. You should browse the rest of the site also, since some of the more general listings and scholarship databases may contain information relevant to students with disabilities.
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| GroceronlineThis site is devoted to finding grocery delivery services in your area. This can make it easier for the disabled to live at their own homes. There are a surprising number of options available on this site.
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| HEATH Resource Center
The HEATH Resource Center, at George Washington University, is a national online clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities. They have information for students with disabilities on educational disability support services, policies, procedures, adaptations, accessing college or university campuses, career-technical schools, and other postsecondary training entities. We have information on financial assistance, scholarships, and materials that help students with disabilities transition into college, university, career-technical schools, or other postsecondary programs.
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| Job Accommodation NetworkThis site lists state agencies for vocational rehabilitation. By contacting your local vocational rehabilitation office, you will tap into a wealth of resources related to employment options for people with disabilities. In addition to vocational rehabilitation, some states have separate agencies listed which serve individuals who are blind and visually impaired.
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| Mobility International USASince 1995, MIUSA has served as the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (NCDE), a project sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and managed by MIUSA to: educate people with disabilities and related organizations about international exchange opportunities; increase the participation of people with disabilities in the full range of international volunteer, study, work and research programs; advise international exchange organizations about the Americans with Disabilities Act; and facilitate partnerships between people with disabilities, disability-related organizations and international exchange organizations.
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| Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Formed in 1956, the MFPA is an international, for-profit association owned and run by disabled artists to help them find colleagues and meet their financial needs. Members paint with brushes held in their mouths or feet as a result of a disability sustained at birth or through an accident or illness that prohibits them from using their hands.
The MFPA helps their artists financially by publishing cards books and other products with the images of member artists. They have a newsletter, and their webpage has an online gallery of the artists’ work. Additionally, the site has a page where they highlight recent exhibits and similar events that the organization sponsors, or where member artists have participated.
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| National Theatre Workshop of the HandicappedThe National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped, Inc. aspires to be the finest theatre arts-training institution in the world for persons with physical disabilities. They are a non-profit educational, production, and advocacy organization founded in 1977 by Brother Rick Curry, S.J., PhD. Since 1977, they have grown into an international institution with a campuses in the heart of New York City and in coastal town of Belfast, Maine. In addition to their workshop classes, they offer theatre and community workshops and forums for dramatic literature on themes of disability, maintain a professional repertory theatre that showcases the talents of NTWH students, and act as a management and promotion agency for their students.
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| Parents with Disabilities OnlineParents with Disabilities Online has 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. The site has been developed to serve parents with disabilitiies, disabled people planning to become parents, or able bodied partners of disabled parents.
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| tell-us-your-story.com
tell-us-your-story.com is a disability discussion forum for those of us with disabilities as well as our parents, friends, spouses, caregivers, co-workers.
It's a place where we can retain personal ownership of our stories while we share them with others and showcase them for editors, publishers, agents.
In doing so, we gain insight about disability culture and living well with vulnerability.
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