Links to General Disability-Related Web Sites
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Aging with a Disability - The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a part of the U.S. Department of Education. RRTC conducts rehabilitation research, trains others about findings, and provides information to consumers and professionals.
Center for Research on Women with Disabilities - The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD) is a research center that focuses on issues related to health, aging,civil rights, abuse, and independent living. CROWD's purpose is to promote, develop, and disseminate information to expand the life choices of women with disabilities so that they may fully participate in community life. More specifically, researchers develop and evaluate models for interventions to address specific problems effecting women with disabilities.
CODI - Cornucopia of Disability Information - speaks for itself. It has disability information in the areas of education, directories, databases, statistics, government documents, computer access, legal, publications, WWW, bibliographic references, aging, politics, universal design, and announcements.
DAWWN - Disability Advocacy Work With Networking - information on disabilities and advocacy. Links to other disability sites.
DIMENET - Disabled Individuals Movement for Equality Computer Network - consumer-controlled electronic communications and publications, focuses on empowerment through computer networking.
Disability Policy Center - training materials, policy papers and policy briefs on a variety of national disability issues prepared by Bobby Silverstein, former Director of U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy.
ESI - Employment Support Institute - helps make decisions about employment options and policies affecting people with disabilities. Very user friendly; personal; links to other web sites.
Family Village a site offering a vast array of information and resources including parent-to-parent connections, to families of children with disabilities.
HalfthePlanet a disability-focused web site that offers half the planet's population-including 150 million people in the United States whose personal and professional lives are affected by disability-comprehensive, reliable information, products and services.
ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization - maintains links to independent living resource materials, rehabilitation research and training, centers for independent living, and other projects and research of interest to people with disabilities.
Jobs for the disabled task force - To initiate new activities in at least 1000 clubs to eliminate barriers to employment for qualified disabled persons and to work with local employers, vocational training organizations, governmental and other support groups and by working together to lead to the possible creation of 500,000 job opportunities for disabled persons by the year 2002.
KidNeeds.com - a worldwide resource and global marketplace for children with special needs, their families and other caregivers.
National Business and Disability Council - the leading resource for corporations that are hiring, working with, and marketing to people with disabilities.
National Fair Housing Advocate - federal fair housing litigation index, searchable case databases, advocate discussion forum, HUD guidance notices, job openings related to fair housing, links to articles, press releases, newsletters, other fair housing resources, and 1997 FHIP Awards.
The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission - an internationally recognized accreditation authority for organizations serving people with disabilities and others in need of rehabilitation.
The Texas Home of Your Own Coalition - a project of the United Cerebral Palsy of Texas
World Wide Web Disability Resources - lots of links to disability resources and information