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ADA & Your Rights

• ADA hot links
  The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is an international toll-free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations and the employability of people with functional limitations.
  
• ADA Indiana
  ADA-Indiana is part of a six-state consortium established by the Great Lakes ADA Center which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
  
• Access Board
  U.S. Access Board - A Federal Agency Committed to Accessible Design for People with Disabilities
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Technical Assistance Program
  Your Comprehensive Resource for Information on the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Great Lakes ADACenter
  ADA Technical Assistance Center, Great Lakes Region
• National Fair Housing Advocate Online
  The National Fair Housing Advocate Online is a resource designed to serve both the fair housing advocacy community and the general public with timely news and information regarding the issues of housing discrimination.

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The Arts & Recreation

• American Association of Adapted Sports
  &Off the Sidelines, Into the Game& America's Hometown Sports Leagues for Youth with Physical Disabilities and Visual Impairments
• National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
  CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically under served individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
• National Center on Accessibility (Recreation and Parks)
  NCA is an organization committed to the full participation in parks, recreation and tourism by people with disabilities.
• National Institute of Art & Disabilities
  NIAD'S mission is to provide an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.
• Special Olympics
  The Special Olympics global community includes athletes, volunteers, coaches, family members and sponsors/supporters.
• Very Special Arts
  VSA arts is an International organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology

• ABLEDATA database on assistive technology
  The ABLEDATA database contains information on more than 27,000 assistive technology products (over 19,000 of which are currently available), from white canes to voice output programs.
• Alliance for Technology Access
  The (ATA) is a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers and Vendors, Affiliates, and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.
• Center for IT Accommodation
  The Center for IT Accommodation's (CITA) mission is to be the recognized government wide policy resource for information on the accessibility of electronic and information technology, and in the use of assistive technologies.
• Equal Access to Software and Information
  EASI's mission is to serve as a resource by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities.
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society
  RESNA is an interdisciplinary association of people with a common interest in technology and disability. Our purpose is to improve the potential of people with disabilities to achieve their goals through the use of technology.
• Trace Research and Development Center
  Trace Center Mission Statement: To prevent the barriers and capitalize on the opportunities presented by current and emerging information and telecommunication technologies, in order to create a world that is as accessible and usable as possible for as many people as possible.

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Community Inclusion and Independent Living

• Accessible Congregations Campaign
  A project of the Religion and Disability Program of the National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) and Initiative 2000, a nationwide celebration of the achievements and contributions of people with disabilities. Churches, parishes, synagogues, temples and meetinghouses across America are being enlisted in this campaign.
• Family Village disability related resources
  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.
• Independent Living Research Utilization
  The ILRU program is a national center for information, training, research, and technical assistance in independent living.
• Institute for Community Inclusion
  The Institute for Community Inclusion 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.
• Institute on Community Integration
  Our mission is to improve the community services and social supports available to individuals with developmental and other disabilities, and their families, throughout the United States and abroad. We fulfill this mission through research, professional training, technical assistance, and publishing activities.
• National Home of Your Own Alliance
  The National Home of Your Own Alliance is funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities to promote opportunities for people with disabilities to own and control their homes.
• National Program on Self Determination
  All people, including individuals with disabilities, have rights and responsibilities to live as full citizens. The barriers that stand in the way must be eliminated.
• Partners in Policymaking
  Partners is an innovative, competency based leadership training program for adults with developmental disabilities and parents of young children with disabilities.
• Research and Training Center on Independent Living
  Our strategic mission is to enhance Independent Living (IL) for all. We make IL better by working with consumers, providing quality research, and widely disseminating enhancement products.
• Self Advocate Leadership Network
  The Self-Advocate Leadership Network is a team of self-advocates and professionals who will travel anywhere to train others on self-determination, community integration, participant-driven supports, and systems change.
• The ArcLink (service providers database)
  Now individuals and families seeking resources and advice on home and community-based services can find detailed information on service providers within this Web site.

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Disability Rights Organizations

• Advocating Change Together / Self Advocacy
  ACT is a grassroots, member-controlled organization, run by and for persons with developmental and other disabilities. Disability rights activists, self-advocates, and their allies have demanded freedom and equality; they have taken the lead in creating change. ACT is about encouraging and supporting this change.
• ADAPT
  There's no place like home, and we mean real homes, not nursing homes. We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
• American Association for People with Disabilities
  We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan, cross-disability organization whose goals are unity, leadership and impact.
• Axis Disability Rights Website
  AXIS CONSULTATION AND TRAINING LTD is a private consulting firm established by Norman Kunc and Emma Van der Klift which provides in-service and consultation in the areas of inclusive education, employment equity, conflict resolution, and management in human services.
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization based in Washington D.C. Our advocacy is based on the principle that every individual is entitled to choice and dignity. For many people with mental disabilities, this means something as basic as having a decent place to live, supportive services and equality of opportunity.
• The Disability Rights Activist
  THE DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST brings together much of the information needed to enable anyone interested in the rights of disabled people to work for those rights.
• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)
  The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF) is a national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents of children with disabilities.
• Freedom Clearinghouse (long term care)
  Our Mission is to use the Olmstead decision to free all law abiding people with disabilities from institutions to live in the community.
• Justice For All Network
  Justice For All and our JFA E-mail Network were formed to defend and advance disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress. One JFA goal is to work with national and state organizations of people with disabilities to get the word from Washington D.C. out to the grassroots.
• World Institute on Disability
  WID is a nonprofit, international public-policy center dedicated to carrying out cutting edge research on disability issues and overcoming obstacles to independent living.

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Education, Children and Youth

• SPECIAL EDUCATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
  
• INDIANA MEDICAID HELPS SCHOOLS COVER THE COST OF SOME IEP SERVICES
  
• ABOUT SPECIAL KIDS, INC
  The Indiana Parent Information Network announces a brand new name.
• HBM_CHOICES
  (Children Have Opportunities in Inclusive Communities, Environments, and Schools) is for families with children in the Hamilton Boone Madison Cooperative. It is dedicated to enhancing opportunities for our children's education, and to building a strong community to support our children's growth and development.
• AutismTown
  AutismTown, a joint venture of Cure Autism Now and TalkAutism, is a Web-based initiative aimed at bringing the autism community together and raising funds for autism research and technology programs.
• What's Up! Newsletter
  This site is devoted to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, listing various news and various events happening.
• Association on Higher Education and Disability
  The Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) is an international, multicultural organization of professionals committed to full participation in higher education for persons with disabilities.
• Council for Exceptional Children
  CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
  ERIC is an acronym for the Educational Resources Information Center. ERIC EC gathers and disseminates the professional literature, information, and resources on the education and development of individuals of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.
• HEATH national clearingpost secondarysecondary education
  The HEATH Resource Center of the George Washington University is the national clearingpost secondarysecondary education for individuals with disabilities. Support from the U.S. Department of Education enables HEATH to serve as an information exchange about educational support services, policies, procedures, adaptations, and opportunities at American campuses, vocational-technical schools, apost secondarysecondary training entities.
• Learning Disabilities On Line
  An interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and other professionals
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
  NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
• The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition seeks to increase the capacity of national, state and local agencies and organizations to improve secondary education and transition results for youth with disabilities and their families.
• Parents Helping Parents Family Resource Center
  PHP is a non-profit organization which helps children with special needs receive the services they require by strengthening the skills and resolve of their parents and caregivers.

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Employment

• Disabled Business Persons Association
  Founded in 1985, the Disabled Businesspersons Association is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to assisting enterprising individuals with disabilities maximize their potential in the business world, and work with vocational rehabilitation, government and business to encourage the participation and enhance the performance of the disabled in the workforce.
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
  The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is not a job placement service, but an international toll-free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations and the employability of people with disabilities.
• Office of Disability Employment Policy for the Department of Labor
  The mission of ODEP, under the leadership of an Assistant Secretary, will be to bring a heightened and permanent long-term focus to the goal of increasing employment of persons with disabilities.
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  
• Indiana Association for Persons in Supported Employment
  IN-APSE is committed to promoting and implementing quality community employment and choice for all people with disabilities in Indiana. Our efforts include statewide advocacy, information dissemination, and supporting quality community life for people with disabilities through supported employment.

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General & Miscellaneous

• Deaf & Hard of Hearing
  "SIGN LANGUAGE IS SPEAKING FROM THE HEART WITH YOUR HANDS"
• Self-Advocay Indiana
  Self-Advocay is about speaking for yourself and others. We want to make our dreams, hopes, and needs come true to better our lives. Because one woman (Rosa Parks) got the courage to say no more, the lives of African-Americans were changed. They came together as a community to fight for their civil rights as American citizens. Like the movement before us, we want the control over our hopes and dreams. Finally we will be treated as American citizens, like everyone else.
• Census Bureau Data on Disability
  The United States Bureau of the Census provides data on disability based on three primary sources: the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the decennial census of population, and the Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Disability Data
  InfoUse, a company based in Berkeley, CA, develops information and presents it in ways that maximize the potential for people to use it to change the world for the better.
• Disability Resources on the Internet
  Information about legal rights, financial resources, assistive technology, employment opportunities, housing modifications, childrearing and educational options, transportation and mobility services, and more.
• Disability History Museum & Learning Resource Center
  The Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. Our goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies.
• Disability Social History Project
  The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles.
• Facilitated Communication Institute
  Facilitated communication is an alternative means of expression for people who cannot speak, or whose speech is highly limited (e.g. echoed, limited to one or a few word utterances), and who cannot point reliably.
• Foundation Center
  The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed.
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
  The mission of NIDRR is to generate, disseminate and promote new knowledge to improve the options available to disabled persons. The ultimate goal is to allow these individuals to perform their regular activities in the community and to bolster society’s ability to provide full opportunities and appropriate supports for its disabled citizens.
• National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network
  The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) provides information about mental health via a toll-free telephone number (800-789-2647), this web site and more than 200 publications

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Government

• INDIANA WAIVER WATCH WEBSITE
  The primary mission of this site is to provide a forum in which waiver participants, their caregivers, case managers, and providers can communicate about the what's going on with Medicaid waivers.
• BEST
  BEST, a tool to find out if you might be eligible for benefits from any program administered by Social Security. Visit this website to learn more
• Benefits for Children with Disabilities booklet.
  Visit this website to learn more about Social Security Income (SSI) and health benefits through Social Security for children with disabilities and adults disabled since childhood.
• EEOC new fact sheet about health care workers and the ADA.
  This fact sheet provides practical information about applying Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) employment rules in healthcare jobs in a variety of settings.
• Voluntary Community Assistance Network (V-CAN)
  The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) is embarking on a modernization effort that will transform the way clients interact with FSSA. This modernization will provide clients with more choices and convenience while improving accountability for FSSA.
• Disability.Gov (federal program info/links)
  The Office of Disability Employment Policy created this site to provide one-stop online access to resources, services, and information available throughout the Federal government.
• Federal Bills and Summaries
  THOMAS. A legislative information database with current and past congressional records and bills.
• Indiana Bills and Summaries
  A database of Indiana legislative bills, acts and resolutions. Check the current status of a bill as it thoughs thourgh the legislative process.
• Indiana Division of Special Education
  The Division of Special Education, Indiana Department of Education, administers the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, P.L. 101-476) which applies to students with disabilities, ages 3 through 21, in Indiana. Included in this Act are students with autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, hearing impairments, mental impairments, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairments, other health impairments, emotional handicaps, learning disabilities, communication disorders, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairments.
• Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
  By collaborating with local communities, cutting across program barriers and blending various funding sources, FSSA continues to improve the lives of all Hoosiers.
• Indiana First Step Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers
  MISSION: To assure that all Indiana families with infants and toddlers experiencing developmental delays or disabilities have access to early intervention services close to home when they need them.
• Indiana General Assembly
  Access to the Indiana General Assembly including session calendar, Bills and Resolutions, listing of Legislators, publications and other documents.
• Indiana Members of Congress & Elected Officials
  Listing of State and Federal elected officials in the state of Indiana.
• State Agency Telephone Directory
  Indiana State Agency and Toll Free telephone numbers.
• U.S. Congress
  Elected officials, issues & actions, agency listings and much more. The official site of the United States Congress.
• U.S. Department of Justice
  The Department represents the citizens of the United States in enforcing the law in the public interest and plays a key role in protection against criminals; ensuring healthy competition of business; safeguarding the consumer; enforcing drug, immigration, and naturalization laws; and protecting citizens through effective law enforcement.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  CMS provides health insurance for over 74 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP.
• U.S. House Directory
  United States House of Representatives directory and database.
• U.S. Office of Disability, Aging and LongTerm Care Policy
  The Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) is charged with developing, analyzing, evaluating and coordinating HHS policies and programs which support the independence, productivity, health and long-term care needs of children, working age adults and older persons with disabilities.
• U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
  The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
• U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration
  The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) oversees formula and discretionary grant programs that help individuals with physical or mental disabilities to obtain employment and live more independently through the provision of such supports as counseling, medical and psychological services, job training and other individualized services.
• U.S. Senate Directory
  The United States Senate directory and database.
• U.S. Social Security Online
  Social Security Online has numerous online resources that will help you understand the current program and to frame the discussions of the future of Social Security.
• White House
  Information on tax relief, social security, medicare and so much more.

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Health & Long Term Care

• LIST SERVE FOR INDIANA COCHLEAR IMPLANT FAMILIES, ADULTS, AND PROFESSIONALS
  IN Cochlear Implant is a support group for families (aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents all included!) of CI candidates, families who are using cochlear implants or just have questions about CI in Indiana. To subscribe, email INcochlearimplant-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
• Families USA HeLong term Longterm Care
  Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
• National Clearinghouse on Managed Long Term LongTerm Services
  MCARE is the National Clearinghouse on Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Support for Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families, which is funded through a grant from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Women with Disabilities Resource Center
  The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women's health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, other Federal agencies, and private sector resources.

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Indiana Statewide Organizations

• The Arc of Indiana
  The Arc of Indiana was formed as a statewide organization in 1956 to advocate on behalf of people with mental retardation and related disabilities and their families.
• Assistive Technology Through Action in Indiana (ATTAIN)
  ATTAIN, Inc. has developed systems change in the area of assistive technology by developing a comprehensive, customer responsive statewide program. This program promotes community based, technology related services, training, information and referral, and legislation. This is done through individual case advocacy activities on funding issues, policy review, and position statements.
• Breaking New Grounds Resource Center
  Since its inception in 1979, the Breaking New Ground Resource Center in Purdue's Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering has become internationally recognized as the primary source for information and resources on rehabilitation technology for persons working in agriculture.
• Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
  Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana is a not-for-profit coalition of organizations and over 300,000 individual members throughout the State of Indiana. For over two decades CAC has worked to empower citizens and promote economic and environmental justice.
• COVOH - Council of Volunteers and Organizations for Hoosiers with Disabilities
  Promotes educational and vocational programs for children with two or more disabilities.
• Indiana Association of Area Agencies on Aging
  We provide services to our members that enhance their ability to effectively accomplish their missions, including advocating for quality public and private programs and services for the elderly and persons with disabilities.
• Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities
  INARF Inc. is an Indiana based membership organization whose purpose is to provide leadership and support to its constituency in the development of resources and promotion of quality services which will increase the membership’s ability to effectively serve the inclusive needs of persons with disabilities.
• Indiana Civil Rights Commission
  The Indiana Civil Rights Commission enforces the Indiana civil rights laws and provide quality education and service to the public to ensure equal opportunity for all Hoosiers and visitors to the State of Indiana.
• Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
  The mission of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community is to provide leadership that enables communities to include, support, and empower people with disabilities and family members.
• Indiana Parent Information Network
  The Indiana Parent Information Network is a not-for-profit organization where parents, professionals and volunteers work together to support children with special needs.
• Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services
  IPAS was established "To protect and promote the rights of individuals with disabilities, through empowerment and advocacy."
• Indiana Special Olympics
  The mission of Special Olympics is to provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of sports for children and adults with mental retardation in order to create continuing opportunities for them to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience the joy of achievement, be included in the community, build skills, and make friends.
• Indiana Resource Center for Families with Special Needs (INSOURCE)
  The mission of IN*SOURCE is to provide parents, families, and service providers in Indiana with the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for children and young adults with disabilities.
• Indiana's Rural Transit Assistance Program
  Have you ever had a problem and didn't know where to turn? If you are one of Indiana's small urban or rural transportation providers, you have a place to call...Indiana's Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP)! The RTAP Program provides technical assistance and training to transportation providers all over the state of Indiana.
• Mental Health Association
  

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Media & Magazines

• Indiana 211 Partnership, Inc.
  Indiana 211 Partnership, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building the 2-1-1 system for Indiana. The goal is to create a seamless network of information and referral services that enables anyone in Indiana in need of human services to have quick referrals to those who provide them by dialing 2-1-1.
• What's Up! Newsletter
  This site is devoted to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, listing various news and various events happening.
• Accessible Society Action Project
  The Center for an Accessible Society. Disability issues information for Journalists.
• Half The Planet
  HalfthePlanet Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the application of technology to promote the values of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—independent living, social inclusion, equality of opportunity, economic self-sufficiency, and empowerment.
• Mainstream online
  Produced by, for and about people with disabilities, MAINSTREAM covers news & current affairs, new products & technology, profiles of movers & shakers, education, employment, sexuality & relationships, housing, transportation, travel & recreation.
• Mouth Magazine
  Some folks call the Mouth radical. Mouth brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people.
• National Center for Accessible Media
  NCAM's mission is: to expand access to present and future media for people with disabilities; to explore how existing access technologies may benefit other populations; to represent its constituents in industry, policy and legislative circles; and to provide access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
• On A Roll
  Talk Radio about Life and Disability
• Ragged Edge Magazine
  Ragged Edge magazine is successor to the award-winning periodical, The Disability Rag. In Ragged Edge, and on this website, you'll find the best in today's writing about society's "ragged edge" issues: medical rationing, genetic discrimination, assisted suicide, long-term care, attendant services. We cover the disability experience in America -- what it means to be a crip living at the start of the 21st century.

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National Disability Organizations

• American Association of People with Disabilities
  We are over 50 million strong - People with disabilities in America, plus our families and friends. We see the need for one unifying membership organization to leverage the numbers of people with disabilities and their families and friends to access economic and other benefits to form an organization which will be a positive private-sector force to achieve the goal of full inclusion in American society.
• American Council of the Blind
  The Council strives to improve the well-being of all blind and visually impaired people by: serving as a representative national organization of blind people; elevating the social, economic and cultural levels of blind people; improving educational and rehabilitation facilities and opportunities; cooperating with the public and private institutions and organizations concerned with blind services; encouraging and assisting all blind persons to develop their abilities and conducting a public education program to promote greater understanding of blindness and the capabilities of blind people.
• American Foundation for the Blind
  The American Foundation for the Blind is dedicated to addressing the critical issues of literacy, independent living, employment, and access through technology for the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
• Autism Society of America
  The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research related to autism.
• 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.
• National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
  The National Association of the Deaf (NAD), established in 1880, is the oldest and largest constituency organization safeguarding the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in education, employment, health care, and telecommunications.
• National Council on Disability
  
• National Organization on Disability
  The National Organization on Disability promotes the full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. N.O.D. was founded in 1982 at the conclusion of the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons.
• National Parent Network on Disabilities
  The mission of the National Parent Network on Disabilities is to provide a presence and national voice for ALL families of children, youth and adults with disabilities.
• National Spinal Cord Injury Association
  The mission of The National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA) is to educate, and empower survivors of spinal cord injury and disease through our toll-free help-line, nationwide chapters and support groups to achieve and maintain higher levels of independence.
• Paralyzed Veterans of America
  The Paralyzed Veterans of America, a congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members—veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or dysfunction.
• Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation
  The PCMR acts in an advisory capacity to the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on matters relating to programs and services for persons with mental retardation.
• The National Association of Protection and Advocacy System
  NAPAS has a vision of a society where people with disabilities exercise self determination and choice and have equality of opportunity and full participation.
• TASH International Advocacy Association
  Descriptions of our non-profit Association, devoted to information dissemination and policy formulation, outline the combined efforts of the 8,000 plus members who work to insure that all individuals with severely handicapping conditions gain access to dignified, pleasurable lives in community based, inclusive settings.
• The Arc of the United States
  The ARC works through education, research and advocacy to improve the quality of life for children and adults with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families and works to prevent both the causes and the effects of mental retardation.
• United Cerebral Palsy
  UCP is the leading source of information on cerebral palsy and is a pivotal advocate for the rights of persons with any disability. In fact, 65% of people served by UCP have disabilities other than cerebral palsy.
• University Affiliated Programs
  
• U.S. Easter Seals
  Easter Seals provides services to help children and adults with disabilities and/or special needs as well as support to their families.

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