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Resources for persons with disabilities
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  • Library Database Accessibility
  • Web Accessibility
  • Adaptive Technologies
  • Apps
  • Voice to Text

Apraxia

  • Apraxia-Kids
  • National Institute of Health. Apraxia of Speech.

Associations and Organizations

  • American Association of People with Disabilities.
  • Disabled American Veterans
  • Easter Seals. Massachusetts

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

  • Attention Deficit Disorder Association.
  • CHADD - The National Network on ADHD
  • Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
  • United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • United States. National Institute of Mental Health. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

  • Asperger's Association of New England.
  • Asperger's Syndrome Education Network.
  • Association for Science in Autism Treatment
  • Autism Genetic Resource Exchange
  • Autism NOW
  • Autism Society.
  • Autism Speaks.
  • Autism Spectrum Connection
  • GRASP Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership
  • National Autism Center (NAC)
  • National Autistic Society.
  • Stanford University. Autism & Developmental Disorders Research Program
  • TalkAutism.
  • U.S. Autism & Aspergers Association.
  • United States. National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus. Asperger's Syndrome
  • University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. TEACCH. Introduction to TEACCH.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  • American Sign Language Teachers Association.
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • Deaf Resource Library.
  • Handspeak
  • Hearing Loss Association of America.
  • Hearing Speech & Deaf Center.
  • Listen Up Web.
  • Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
  • PBS. Deaf Culture.
  • Sign Language Online
  • Start ASL
  • World Health Organization. Deafness and Hearing Impairment.

Developmental Disorders

  • American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders.
  • The ARC for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
  • Think College: College Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Developmental Disabilities.
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison. Waisman Center.
  • Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.

Blind and Visually Challenged

  • American Council of the Blind
  • American Foundation for the Blind
  • Center for Applied Special Technology
  • Hot Braille
  • Ishihara Test (Color Blindness)
  • Learning Ally
  • Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
  • Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
  • National Eye Institute.
  • National Federation of the Blind. (NFB) Voice of the Nation's Blind
  • National Library Service to the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
  • New York Institute for Special Education. Blindness Resources Center.
  • Perkins Institute
  • Regional and Subregional Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
  • Seeing Eye.
  • Vlingo
    Voice to text

College and University Resources

  • Association on Higher Education and Disabilities
  • FinAid. Financial Aid for Students with Disabilities.
  • Heath Resource Center at the National Youth Transitions Center

Downs Syndrome

  • Down Syndrome Research Foundation.
  • National Down Syndrome Congress

Education

  • National Center on Universal Design for Learning.
  • Youth On the Move. Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Disabilities

Emotional Disorders

  • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Behavior Online.
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness
  • SERI Behavior Disorders Resources

Employment

  • Federal Jobs Network. Disabled Hiring Programs.
  • Institute for Community Inclusion.
  • JAN: Job Accommodation Network.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook.
  • U.S. Department of Labor. Disability Resources.

General Resources

  • Disabilities Studies Quarterly
  • Disability History Museum
  • DO-IT: Disabilities Opportunities Internetworking and Technology.
  • Global Disability Rights Library.
  • My Child Without Limits.
  • National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
  • National Center for Youth with Disabilities.
  • National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
  • New England Index.
  • SPED Child and Teen. (Massachusetts)
  • U.S. International Council on Disabilities.
  • UMass Medical School. Lamar Soutter Library. Disability Resource Guide.

Government Resources

  • Disability Compendium.
  • Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
  • National Council on Disability
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Access to Disability Data.
  • Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
  • U.S. Social Security Administration. Benefits for People with Disabilities.
  • U. S. Census Bureau. Disability.
  • U.S. Chief Information Officer Resources
  • U.S. Department of Education. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services.
  • U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
    Auxiliary aids for Post Secondary Students with Disabilities.
  • U.S. Department of Justice. Americans with Disabilities Act
  • U.S. Department of Labor. Civil Rights Center.
  • U.S. Department of Labor. Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
  • U.S. Department of Labor. Office of Disability Employment Policy.
  • U.S. Department of the Interior. Accessibility
  • U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
  • U.S. Library of Congress. Accessibility Home.
  • PDF Document: U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics.
    Students with Disabilities at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions
  • U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics.
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine. Accessibility.

IEPS

  • Individual Educational Plans.
  • Massachusetts. Elementary & Secondary Education. Special Education. IEPS.
  • Sample IEP for child with autism/pdd.

Learning Disabilities

  • International Dyslexia Association
  • LD OnLine
  • Learning Disabilities Association of America.
  • National Center for Learning Disabilities.

International Agencies

  • Disability Rights Fund
  • Disability Rights Promotion International
  • Disabled Persons International
  • Handicap International
  • International Disability Alliance
  • International Disability and Development Consortium
  • World Institute on Disability

Massachusetts.

  • Massachusetts Administration and Finance. Massachusetts On Disability
  • Massachusetts Aging and Disabilities Information Locator.
  • Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
  • Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
  • Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
  • Massachusetts. Health and Human Services. Disability Services.
  • Massachusetts. Veterans Services.
  • The ARC of Massachusetts

Mental Health

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness

News

  • Disability World.
  • Exceptional Parent

Physical Disabilities

  • The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability.

Service Animals

  • Canine Companions
  • Guide Dog Foundation
  • Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled.
  • Mass.gov. Information About Service Animals
  • Service Animal Registry of America.
  • Support Dogs
  • U.S. Department of Justice. ADA Requirements. Service Animals

Simulators

  • Coblis: Color Blindness Simulator
  • WebAim: Distractability Simulator
  • WebAim: Dyslexia Simulator
  • WebAim: Low Vision simulator
  • WebAim: Screen Reader Simulator

Statistics

  • Annual Disabilities Statistics Compendium
  • Cornell University. Disability Statistics

Study Skills

  • LDW: Learning Disabilities Worldwide.
  • University of St. Thomas. Academic Support Center. Helpful Study skills Links

Speech Disorders

  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • Stuttering Foundation of America.

Transition

  • JAN: Job Accommodation Network.
  • U.S. Department of Labor. Office of Disability Employment Policy.

Universal Design

  • Chronicle of Higher Education. How to Upload Captions to your YouTube Video.
  • Cynthiasays
    "educates users in the concepts behind website accessibility."
  • W3C Web Design and Applications
  • Google Accessibility Tools
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