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• AAPD - American Association Of People With Disabilities - A cross-disability site with numerous resources and free membership available. Home of the Enable magazine.
• Abilities for Life: Taking Charge - Includes a job finding page, associations, health questions, moving on and sports.
• American Disability Association - Information and resources for people with disabilities.
• Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Social Workers - Provides information for social workers who work with deaf and hard of hearing people.
• Disabilities Concerns (DISC) - Material on developmental disabilities, mental illness, creative writing by or related to persons with disabilities, e-mail list, and resources in the area of disability ministry for both individuals and faith communities.
• Disabilities Forum - Coverage of a wide range of disability issues, concerns and disabilities. We cover the entire spectrum of living with a disability.
• Disability Awareness Training - Self Direction - The Self Direction Community Project is a research area to promote and enhance online training accessibility. Personal feedback is needed.
• Disability Friends - A web site for people with all disabilities. It offers a web pal service, chat room, disability equipment links, careers web pal service and career links.
• Disabled Officers - Online support for disabled police officers and their friends and families.
• Disabled/Injured Police Officers Foundation - Helps police officers who have become disabled and/or injured as a result of a line of duty injury. Open to any and all police officers.
• Easter Seals - A non-profit, community-based health agency dedicated to helping children and adults with disabilities attain greater independence.
• Everyday Warriors - A gathering place offering support and information for kids, teens and adults who battle chronic illness or physical disability.
• Federation of Invisible Disabilities - A Canadian non-profit organization supporting people with invisible disabilities such as learning disabilities, brain injuries, autism, add, adhd, fetal alcohol syndrome, autism and dyslexia.
• The Healthy Gimp - Practical information and motivation for persons with a spinal cord injury and other physical disabilities.
• Kiddesign - Dedicated to helping families modify their homes for children with disabilities. Includes a message board.
• National Organization on Disability - Promotes full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
• New Horizons Unlimited - Fostering the interchange of information between people whose life long disabilities have tended to isolate them from the surrounding community and also between caregivers who may be inundated by the prospect of finding answers to their needs, there by providing the opportunity for individuals to share ideas and experiences with one another, that all may benefit.
• Oklahoma Parent Network - Uniting Oklahoma families of disabled children via the World Wide Web, an email list and Web Ring.
• People First of New Hampshire, Inc. - Self-advocacy organization in NH led by people with disabilities.
• Shepherd's Post - Ministering to people with disabilities and their caregivers.
• Sibling Support Project - A national program dedicated to the interests of brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental needs.
• World Association of Persons with Disabilities - A nonpartisan, nonprofit association under God, that represents large portions of the one in five residents of earth that are being alive, involved, effective, in their daily living.