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Online
Disabilities-Online is a directory of information
available on the World Wide Web for people with disabilities, their
families and friends. Sites in our database are organized according to
specific categories, enabling the user to search a subject area to find
web destinations which contain the information needed.
disAbility
Information and Resources
A large site of links to a variety of disability
resources.
American
Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
AAPD
is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization
in the United States, dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency
and political empowerment for the more than 56 million Americans with
disabilities. AAPD works in coalition with other disability
organizations for the full implementation and enforcement of disability
nondiscrimination laws, particularly the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA)
of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
American
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA)
The American Association of Homes and Services for
the Aging (AAHSA) is committed to advancing the vision of healthy,
affordable, ethical aging services for America. The association
represents 5,600 mission-driven, not-for-profit nursing homes,
continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and senior
housing facilities, and home and community-based service providers.
Every day, AAHSA's members serve one million older persons across the
country. AAHSA has state association partners that represent AAHSA
members in most states.
National Spinal
Cord Injury Association
Founded
in 1948, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association is the nation's
oldest and largest civilian organization dedicated to improving the
quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Americans living with the
results of spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and their families.
This number grows by thirty newly-injured people each day. At
NSCIA, we educate and empower survivors of spinal cord injury and
disease to achieve and maintain the highest levels of independence,
health and personal fulfillment. We fulfill this mission by providing
an innovative Peer Support Network and by raising awareness about
spinal cord injury and disease through education. Our education
programs are developed to address information and issues important to
our constituency, policy makers, the general public, and the media, and
including injury prevention, improvements in medical, rehabilitative
and supportive services, research and public policy formulation.
Government
Benefits Finder
Are there government benefit programs available to
help you? GovBenefits.gov will help you answer that question.
Our online screening tool is free, easy-to-use, and completely
confidential. We do not require your name, phone number, Social
Security number, or any other information that could be used to
identify you. You answer a series of questions about yourself, and then
GovBenefits.gov returns a list of government benefit programs you may
be eligible to receive along with information about how you can
apply. Whether it's a direct payment, a loan, insurance,
training, or other services - there may be government benefit programs
available to help you.
Disability
Resources
Disability Resources, inc.
is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to promote and
improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that
can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play
independently. We serve thousands of individuals with
disabilities through a multidisciplinary network of service providers
and consumers. In order to reach as many people with disabilities as
cost effectively as possible, we target our services and publications
to libraries, disability organizations, independent living centers,
rehabilitation facilities, educational institutions, and health and
social service providers. We disseminate information about
books, pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, videos, databases, government
agencies, nonprofit organizations, telephone hotlines and on-line
services that provide free, inexpensive or hard-to-find information to
help people with disabilities live independently.
Senior
Benefits Check Up
BenefitsCheckUp helps thousands every day to find
programs for people ages 55 and over that may pay for some of their
costs of prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other
essential items or services.
Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The U.S. Department of Justice home page for the
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Department of Veterans
Affairs
Assistive
Technology Explorer
Rehabilitation
Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
Information on assistive technology by the National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research, sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Education
Eastern Paralyzed
Veterans Association Assistive Technology Guide
Access Board
Formerly known as the Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the Access Board develops and
maintains accessibility requirements, such as ADA Accessibility
Guidelines (ADAAG), for the built environment, transit vehicles,
telecommunications equipment, and for electronic and information
technology; provides technical assistance and training on these
guidelines and standards; and enforces accessibility standards for
federally funded facilities
Accessibility
Equipment Manufacturers Association
AEMA is a non-profit, unincorporated association,
formed in 1990 to meet the special needs of those involved with
accessibility equipment. The term "Accessibility Equipment"
includes the design, installation and maintenance of vertical, inclined
and horizontal conveying systems which are used primarily to provide
access and/or egress for physically challenged persons in public and
residential environments. The products are commonly known as inclined
platform (wheelchair) lifts, vertical platform lifts, limited-use/
limited application elevators, residential elevators, stairway
chairlifts and similar products. The site provides
information on these types of assistive equipment and list the
association's members with contact information.
Adaptive
Environments Center (AEC)
A non-profit organization, "Adaptive Environments
promotes accessibility as well as universal design through education
programs, technical assistance, training, consulting, publications and
design advocacy. Its mission is to promote, facilitate, and
advocate for international adoption of policies and designs that enable
every individual, regardless of disability or age, to participate fully
in all aspects of society."
Center
for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center)
IDEA is dedicated to improving the design of
environments and products by making them more usable, safer and
appealing to people with a wide range of abilities, throughout their
life spans. IDEA provides resources and technical expertise
in architecture, product design, facilities management and the social
and behavioral sciences to further these agendas. The Center
is active in basic and applied research, architectural design, product
design, community service and education. Currently, its
ongoing programs focus on home modifications, functional assessment and
universal design.
Center for
Universal Design - N.C. State University
"The Center for Universal Design is a national
research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates,
develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in buildings and
related products." The Center is one of the best
resources on universal design and designing accessible environments.
The Home
Ramp Project
This site's major resource is How to
Build Wheelchair Ramps for Homes, a manual of design and
construction for modular wheelchair ramps. This manual includes
information about ramps and long-tread low-riser steps to improve safe
home accessibility. You can view or download an
electronic copy or order the published version.
National
Association of Home Builders Research Center
The NAHB Research Center was founded in 1964 as a
not-for-profit subsidiary of the National Association of Home
Builders. The Center's research and demonstration projects
include accessibility issues. It also offers several
accessibility-related publications from its on-line store.
National
Center on Accessibility
NCA is an organization committed to the full
participation in parks, recreation and tourism by people with
disabilities. Through education, technical assistance, and research
solutions, they aspire to providing responsive, reliable, and
comprehensive services resulting in the development of knowledge,
awareness, skills and ultimately action. NCA offers
numerous publications on accessibility and universal design for yards,
parks and other outdoor environments.
National Kitchen and
Bath Association (NKBA)
The NKBA site has tips for consumers on universal
design, but the main resource that it offers is its bookstore with
several books on universal design for bathrooms and kitchens.
the NKBA Bookstore can be found at
www.nkba.org/trade/Bookstore.asp.
National Resource
Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification
The Center supports service programs and housing
settings that target semi-independent elderly who need assistance with
daily activities, and encourages home modification to convert or adapt
environments to make tasks easier, reduce accidents, and support
independent living. This site offers many resources to aid in
modifying homes so that older individuals or people with disabilities
are able to remain in their homes longer rather than moving to
assistive living or other supervised living arrangements.
Wheelchair
Accessible Home Clearinghouse
This site publishes classified advertisements for
houses, townhouses, and condominiums for sale or rent that are
wheelchair accessible. It also posts ads offering scooters,
wheelchairs, and accessible vans.
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