Disabilities and the Rights of the Disabled in Our Society

• Access/Media - works with individuals, private agencies and local governments to provide programmatic access to public services, programs and accomodations for person with disabilities.
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Audio Description - Audio Description involves the accessibility of visual images of theater, media, and museum exhibitions.
• Autism
• Center for Assessment and Demographic Studies - CADS mission is to conduct large-scale studies of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population of the United States that yield timely descriptions of relevant characteristics of this population that will serve specific action-oriented goals
• Chariot Magazine - Chariot is a magazine for that deals with disability issues.
• Deaf (7)
• Disabilities [Telerian] - a personal disabilities homepage. It is regularly updated and open to user sugestions.
• Disabilities Access Online - Information service for people with disabilities and those who care for them.
• Disabilities Forum - Western New York Disabilities Forum provides access to a wide variety of disabilty related news, information, and resources.
• Disability Related Information
• Evan Kemp Associates - Disability Resources
• Gallaudet University - Gallaudet University is the only liberal arts university for the Deaf in the world.
• Hyperlexia - information on the syndrome of hyperlexia -- Pervasive Developmental Disorder with autistic-like symptoms, but with a strong visual ability to decode and a precocious ability to read.
• NU-Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Ottawa Freenet Disability Resources
• Parents Helping Parents - a multifaceted, comprehensive Parent Directed Family Resource Center for children with any kind of special need (mental, physical, emotional, or learning disabilities whether due to birth defects, illness, vehicular, sports or other accidents, such as near drowning).
• The Archimedes Project - improve access to information for individuals with disabilities by influencing the early design stages of tomorrow's technology.
• World Friends For The Disabled - associated with a LISTSERV group by the same name (WFFTD) that provides a forum for persons with an interest in issues relating to disabilities. Informal discussion, friendship, and sharing of information among disabled and non-disabled persons is our goal. We also have a gathering of resources relevant to disability on our web page.
• Index - Disability Resources from Apple - sponsored by Apple's Worldwide Disability Solutions Group. It includes information about assistive technology solutions for a variety of different disabilities. Choose beween regular and large print for viewing the pages...
• Usenet - alt.support.dwarfism [new] - Unofficial newsgroup of the Little People of America. Devoted to a wide-ranging discussion of the social and medical aspects of dwarfism.

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