Advancing the legal rights
of persons with disabilities
across the South

GENERAL LINKS

[Aging with a Disability - The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center] (RRTC) is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a part of the U.S. Department of Education. RRTC conducts rehabilitation research, trains others about findings, and provides information to consumers and professionals.

[Center for Research on Women with Disabilities] - The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD) is a research center that focuses on issues related to health, aging,civil rights, abuse, and independent living. CROWD's purpose is to promote, develop, and disseminate information to expand the life choices of women with disabilities so that they may fully participate in community life. More specifically, researchers develop and evaluate models for interventions to address specific problems effecting women with disabilities.

[COACH] is a project that provides free information about training programs that teach people with disabilities how to use public transportation, and training programs that teach transit providers how to best serve their passengers with disabilities.

[CCD - Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities] - advocates on behalf of people with physical and mental disabilities and their families - to ensure self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration, inclusion; enhance civil rights and quality of life; reflect the values of the ADA. Lots of links to other disability organizations.

[CODI - Cornucopia of Disability Information] - speaks for itself. It has disability information in the areas of education, directories, databases, statistics, government documents, computer access, legal, publications, WWW, bibliographic references, aging, politics, universal design, and announcements.

[Discover Technology] - This site is devoted to sharing information that is pertinent to persons with disabilities and those professionals who provide services. Here you will find a comprehensive list of links, art, information, a pen pal list, ALS directory and software.

[ESI - Employment Support Institute] - helps make decisions about employment options and policies affecting people with disabilities. Very user friendly; personal; links to other web sites.

[Family Village,] a site offering a vast array of information and resources including parent-to-parent connections, to families of children with disabilities.

[GPO Access] - the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, has searchable databases to find government information, federal bulletin boards, Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional bills, United States Code, Economic Indicators, General Accounting Office Reports.

[HalfthePlanet] a disability-focused web site that offers half the planet's population-including 150 million people in the United States whose personal and professional lives are affected by disability-comprehensive, reliable information, products and services.

[ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization] - maintains links to independent living resource materials, rehabilitation research and training, centers for independent living, and other projects and research of interest to people with disabilities.

[INDIE - Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education] - Canadian site with international links to disability-related media and services, barrier-free employers.

[KidNeeds.com] - a worldwide resource and global marketplace for children with special needs, their families and other caregivers.

[Multiple Sclerosis Central] - purpose is to provide pertinent and veritable information to our membership and to offer features where our members can participate in an open and sincere manner.

[National Business and Disability Council] - the leading resource for corporations that are hiring, working with, and marketing to people with disabilities.

[National Fair Housing Advocate] - federal fair housing litigation index, searchable case databases, advocate discussion forum, HUD guidance notices, job openings related to fair housing, links to articles, press releases, newsletters, other fair housing resources, and 1997 FHIP Awards.

[The Access Store] - one of the largest ADA compliance catalogs available.

[The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission] - an internationally recognized accreditation authority for organizations serving people with disabilities and others in need of rehabilitation.

[World Wide Web Disability Resources] - lots of links to disability resources and information