MADID for social justice tries to provide the best available resources from a wide variety of sources and references. We hope that these resources will be helpful.
Autism/Learning Disabilities
A great website with a lots of resources on Autism.
Judson Center is a comprehensive, multi-faceted, community based human service provider licensed by the … QUICK LINKS.
Exceptional Parent (EP) magazine
EP provides practical advice and the most up-to-date educational information for families of children and adults with disabilities and special healthcare needs as well as to the physicians, allied health care professional, and educational professionals who are involved in their care and development.
A website devoted to providing a centralized pool of information on opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to go to college.
Educators with Disabilities Caucus
http://www.cec.sped.org/diversity/edc.html
The website for the Educators with Disabilities Caucus (EDC), a diversity caucus under the Council for Exceptional Children, is a national network of pre-service students, teachers, researchers, and administrators with disabilities and others interested in the topic of educators with disabilities.
Bellevue Community College’s Venture Program
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/venture
The site for Washington State’s Bellevue Community College’s Venture program, a 90-credit Associate in Essential Studies degree, for high-functioning individuals with learning, cognitive and intellectual disabilities.
NewMobility
http://www.newmobility.com/review_article.cfm?id=122&action=browse
NewMobility’s information on disability friendly colleges including a grid regarding specialty services offered.
FinAid
http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/disabled.phtml
The site for FinAid has a disability resources page including financial aid strategies and scholarship opportunities.
Adaptive Environments: “Building Careers in Design”
http://www.careersindesign.org
Adaptive Environments’ web resources to inform people with disabilities about careers in design. The project, Building Careers in Design, was funded by a contract with the RSA National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center.
Heath Resource Center
The HEATH Resource Center, located at The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, is the national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities. Support from the U.S. Department of Education enables the clearinghouse to serve as an information exchange about educational support services, policies, procedures, adaptations, and opportunities at American campuses, vocational-technical schools, and other postsecondary training entities.
NICHCY’s Research Center
http://research.nichcy.org
NICHCY’s Research Center designed to connect visitors with the research evidence on a wide range of education practices.
Business Leadership Network
http://www.usbln.com
The web page for the Business Leadership Network
Careers and the Disabled
http://www.eop.com/cd.html
Careers and the Disabled
IBM’s Accessibility Center Web Site
http://www.ibm.com/able
IBM’s Accessibility Center Web Site with information on News, Guido Corona’s Blog, Accessibility, Products, and much more.
Deaf Professional Network
http://www.worksupport.com
Information, resources and research about work and disability issues.
Internet Disability Job Boards
Internet Disability Job Boards
http://www.jobaccess.org
http://www.business-disability.com/Job_Seekers/job_seekers.asp
http://www.disabledperson.com/recruitability.asp
Hire Disability Solutions
http://www.hiredisabilitysolutions.com
ADA
Job Accommodation Network
The site for the Job Accommodation Network (JAN), a service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition to providing information on job accommodations, self-employment and small business opportunities, JAN provides information on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
ADA & Technical Assistance Center
The site for the ADA & IT Technical Assistance Centers (aka DBTACs) that are comprehensive resources for information on the Americans with Disabilities Act and accessible information technology. Also toll free at 1-800-949-4232 (V/TTY).
Americans with Disabilities Act
A web portal on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and offers visitors approximately 3,400 documents in 10 subject categories on the ADA. The web portal was launched by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) at the Department of Education.
National Coalition for Disability Rights
The website for the National Coalition for Disability Rights.
U.S. Department of Justice’s ADA
The website for the U.S. Department of Justice’s ADA homepage.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The website for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Accessibility Development Associates
Accessibility Development Associates, Inc. newly designed website.
Let’s Get Together
Mark Johnson, nationally recognize disability rights advocate and New Mobility Magazine’s 2001 Person of the Year, has created this new website dedicated to the pioneers of the movement and the people and groups making a difference.
ADA Basics
This site links to a free self-paced web course that explores the legal requirements and the spirit of the ADA and is a project of ADA & IT Assistance Centers.
Applause
United Cerebral Palsy
The website for United Cerebral Palsy that has state by state resource guides on-line. To access them click through to the “Parenting and Families” channel and then to “Resources.”
Google’s accessible website.
Google: Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired
http://labs.google.com/accessible
Ability
The website for online panels for people with disabilities.
Hearing Loss Association of America
The website for the Hearing Loss Association of America. The organization has state affiliates.
About Disability
http://www.aboutdisability.com/bib.html
A page on the About Disability website that is updated several times a year and features media resources (e.g. books, videos, feature films, etc) that address the new disability paradigm.
Life on Wheels – Disability Resources with Gary Karp
Website featuring disability resources from this writer, speaker and trainer.
Proyecto Vision Project’s Bilingual Website
http://www.proyectovision.net/index.html
This is the Proyecto Vision Project’s bilingual website for Latinos with disabilities. While it has an employment focus, it does feature other information of interest to Latinos with disabilities.
Events in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Assistive Technology
http://www.starlingweb.com/adp/as00028e.htm
A website listing disability-related conference in the areas of rehabilitation and assistive technology.
Spokeguard Art
Website for Spokeguard Art, a small business developed by a wheelchair user that puts designs on the spokeguards for wheelchairs. They now have several new designs as well as links to other resources.
Disabled Action Committe
http://members.aol.com/DAC4VA/main.htm
This is the site for the Disabled Action Committee, a Virginia based non-partisan entity formed to promote voting and political participation by members of the disability community. Has an extensive list of web links.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/newsletter/200502.htm
Diversity World
Diversity World
WID
The model website developed by WID for California residents with disabilities who are looking to go to work and need to find programs on careers and benefits.
U.S. Department of Education: Employment Specialists
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/vrpractices/index.html
This U.S. Department of Education web page lists the Employment Specialists in all 50 states.
Deaf Professional Network: Deaf and Hard of Hearing community
http://www.deafprofessional.net
Alliance of Professionals with Disabilities
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/alliance-pwd/
Is the home of the on-line discussion group of the Silicon Valley based The Alliance of Professionals with Disabilities.
Job Accommodation Network
Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network
Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network: A free service to connect employers with disability staffing agencies.
more-action.org 