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Links Related to Our Mission
The wide range of links represented on
this site reflect the wide range of diversity expressed by persons and
families with or at risk for disabilities. On this site you will find
links to national agencies and advocacy groups as well as links specific
to the state of Alabama. We will continue to refine this list in the coming
months to identify specific resources to assist people on the national,
international, and local level.
www.adwas.org
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services; A support agency for Deaf, Deaf-Blind,
Hard-of-Hearing people.
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/add/index.html
HHS,
Administration for Children and families, Administration on Developmental
Disabilities.
www.rehab.state.al.us/text_index.html
Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
www.acdd.org
Alabama Council for Developmental Disabilities.
www.aidb.state.al.us/aidb/
Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind; Alabama Institute for Deaf and
Blind is the world's most comprehensive education and rehabilitation system
serving children and adults who are deaf, blind and multidisabled.
www.awol-texas.org/
All Walks of Life; All Walks Of Life is to empower social solutions for
people with disabilities. We believe that violence prevention- saving
lives and quality of life issues wrap-around each other to form social
solutions.
www.deafchildren.org/
American Society for Deaf Children; Provides support, encouragement, and
information to families raising children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
www.bestbuddies.org
Best Buddies International; Best Buddies is to enhance the lives of people
with mental retardation by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships
and integrated employment.
www.betterhearing.org/
Better Hearing Institute's Hearing Help-On-Line; Provides comprehensive
information on hearing loss, tinnitus, and hearing aids.
www.blindbabies.org
Blind Babies Foundation; Provides services and programs that enable and
empower families, professionals, and the broader community to meet the
unique needs of infant and preschool children who are blind, or visually
impaired, or multihandicapped and visually impaired.
www.childrenwithdisabilities.ncjrs.org
The Children With Disabilities Web Site offers families, service providers,
and other interested individuals information about advocacy, education,
employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation
covering a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
www.c-c-d.org
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities; The Consortium for Citizens
with Disabilities is a coalition of approximately 100 national disability
organizations working together to advocate for national public policy
that ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration
and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects
of society.
www.accessunlimited.com/links.html
The Disability Link Barn; A list of disability sites divided into many
categories.
www.easter-seals.org
Easter Seals; For more than 80 years, Easter Seals has helped people with
disabilities in communities nationwide. From creating the first national
voluntary agency to speak and act on behalf of children with disabilities
in the 1920s, to leading the creation and implementation of the Americans
with Disabilities Act in the 1990s, Easter Seals continues to be an integral
part of life, helping more than a million people gain greater independence
each year. One in every five Americans has a disability, and Easter Seals
is there with expert help, hope and humanity.
www.rit.edu/~easi/index.htm
Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI); Offers on-site and online
workshops to allow individuals with disabilities equal access to information.
www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx
Family Village; We are a global community that integrates information,
resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons
with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those
that provide them services and support.
www.childrenshospital.org/ici/
Institute for Community Inclusion; Mission: ICI supports the rights
of children and adults with disabilities to participate in all aspects
of the community. As practitioners, researchers, and teachers, we
form partnerships with individuals, families and communities. Together
we advocate for personal choice, self-determination, and social and economic
justice.
www.business-disability.com/home.asp
National Business & Disability Council; Provides resource for corporations
that are hiring, working with, and marketing to people with disabilities.
www.circ.uab.edu/ipa
Provides training and resources for families with disabilities in more
than 90 countries. International headquarters is at the UAB
Civitan International Research Center.
www.nfb.org
National Federation of the Blind; Provides public education about blindness,
information and referral services, scholarships, literature and publications
about blindness, aids and appliances and other adaptive equipment for
the blind, advocacy services and protection of civil rights, Job Opportunities
for the Blind, development and evaluation of technology, and support for
blind persons and their families.
www.chtop.com/locator.htm
National Respite Locator Service; Lists contact information for State
respite services.
www2.dol.gov/dol/_sec/public/programs/ptfead/main.htm
Presidential Task Force on Employment of People with Disabilities; Our
mission is to create a coordinated and aggressive national policy to bring
adults with disabilities into gainful employment at a rate that is as
close as possible to that of the general adult population. Through our
website, we will try to keep the American people informed of our activities
and our progress toward fulfilling this mandate. We welcome your comments
and ideas as contributions to this process. Scroll down to see what our
site has to offer, or click on one of the choices offered above this message.
www.seattlechildrens.org/sibsupp
The Sibling Support Project is a national program dedicated to the interests
of brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental
needs. The project is based at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical
Center in Seattle, Washington.
www.sbaa.org
Spina Bifida Association; The Mission of the Spina Bifida Association
of America is to promote the prevention of spina bifida and to enhance
the lives of all affected. The Association was founded in 1973 to address
the specific needs of the spina bifida community and serves as the national
representative of over 70 chapters. SBAA's efforts benefit thousands of
infants, children, adults, parents and professionals each year.
www.vsarts.org
Very Special Arts; VSA arts is a nonprofit organization that creates learning
opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. We believe
that the arts are an avenue to learning and a universal language that
all of us can understand.
www.ucpa.org/index.cfm
United Cerebral Palsy; The mission of UCP is to advance the independence,
productivity and full citizenship of people with cerebral palsy and other
disabilities.
