| AbilityHub |
| www.abilityhub.com |
| AbilityHub.com's purpose is to help you find information on adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers. Searching the Internet for accurate information on Assistive Technology is much like "looking for a needle in a haystack". This web site attempts to reduced the size of the haystack and bring you the information in an organized fashion. |
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| Abledata |
| www.abledata.com |
| Abledata is a federally funded project whose mission is to provide information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States. |
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| AblePlay |
| www.ableplay.org |
| AblePlay toy evaluations are the key to unlocking the magic of play for children with special needs! Choosing toys for children with disabilities can be difficult. There are thousands of choices but finding just the right toy to match the varying abilities of each child with special needs can be a challenge. AblePlay's independent toy reviews and detailed information help you get "beyond the box" to understand each toy's unique features, creative ways each toy can be used with children with special needs and skills that will be enhanced as a result. Search for an AblePlay-Rated Toy today and unlock the magic of play for your children with special needs. |
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| All Our Children |
| www.allourchildrenwa.org |
| The Mission of All Our Children is to provide information and resources to empower parents of children with special needs. Our goal is to assist parents in helping their special needs child reach his/her full potential. |
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| Alliance for Technology Access |
| http://www.ataccess.org |
| The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is the national network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers, Vendors, 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. |
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| American Academy of Pediatrics |
| www.aap.org |
| Committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. |
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| The American Foundation for the Blind |
| www.afb.org |
| The American Foundation for the Blind—the organization to which Helen Keller devoted her life—is a national nonprofit whose mission is to ensure that the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other citizens. The American Foundation for the Blind promotes wide-ranging, systemic change by addressing the most critical issues facing the growing blind and visually impaired population—employment, independent living, literacy, and technology. In addition to its New York City headquarters, the American Foundation for the Blind maintains four National Centers in cities across the United States, and a Governmental Relations office in Washington, DC. |
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| American Library Association Resources for Parents |
| www.ala.org |
| The American Library Association provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. |
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| CHADD |
| www.chadd.org |
| CHADD, Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, is the national non-profit organization representing children and adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). CHADD works to improve the lives of people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder through education, advocacy, and support. |
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| Children's Literature Web Guide |
| www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html |
| The Children’s Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. |
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| Easter Seals National Headquarters |
| www.easter-seals.org |
| For more than 80 years, Easter Seals has helped people with disabilities in communities nationwide. From creating their first national voluntary agency to speak and act on behalf of children with disabilities in the 1920's, to leading the creation and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the 1990's, Easter Seals continues to be an integral part of life, helping more than a million people gain greater independence each year. |
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| The Family Village |
| www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.html |
| The Family Village is 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. This community also includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology, adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature, and much, much more! |
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| The Father's Network |
| www.fathersnetwork.org |
| The Father's Network mission is to celebrate and support fathers and families raising children with special health care needs and developmental disabilities. |
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| First Signs, Inc. |
| www.firstsigns.org |
| First Signs, Inc. is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents and physicians about the early warning signs of autism and other developmental disorders. Our mission is to ensure the best developmental outcome for every child by promoting awareness regarding the most important and often overlooked aspects of development: social/emotional, communication, and behavior. Our goals are to increase early identification through a simple screening method and to facilitate timely referral of these children to early intervention programs. The First Signs Web site provides extensive vital information, covering a range of issues: from healthy development to concerns about a child, from the screening and referral process to treatment, and from current research and guidelines to links to other resources on the Internet and in print. |
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| Helping Your Child Learn to Read |
| www.ed.gov/parents/read/resources/edpicks.jhtml |
| From the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Helping Your Child Learn to Read is one in a series of books on different education topics intended to help you make the most of your child's natural curiosity. Teaching and learning are not mysteries that can only happen in school. They also happen when parents and children do simple things together. |
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| Internet Public Library |
| www.ipl.org |
| The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. |
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| KidsHealth |
| www.kidshealth.org |
| KidsHealth is one of the largest sites on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, their mission is to provide the best children's health information on the Internet! Only KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teems and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. |
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| Let's Play Project |
| http://letsplay.buffalo.edu |
| Look here for information on selecting toys for play, toys for children with disabilities, adapting toys to make them easier to use, locating specially designed toys as well as other resources to promote play. |
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| Lullabies and Other Songs |
| www.kididdles.com |
| Not your average kids' site! |
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| Multnomah County Library Kids Page |
| www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids |
| KidsPage is developed for children (through 8th grade), parents, teachers, caregivers and anyone interested in literature, information and recreation interest for and about children. It is prepared by Youth Services staff at Multnomah County Library and supports the library's service goals and objectives. |
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| National Center for Accessibility |
| www.indiana.edu/~nca |
| Located at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana the National Center for accessibility is a dynamic and innovative leader in the movement to include people with disabilities in recreation, parks, and tourism. The NCA provides technical assistance to organizations of all sizes that are designing and retrofitting their leisure areas and programs for accessibility. The NCA conducts, promotes, and facilitates research on issues essential to accessibility. |
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| National Center for Boundless Playgrounds |
| www.boundlessplaygrounds.org |
| Boundless Playgrounds is the first national nonprofit that provides leadership to foster and create play environments for children and adults of all abilities. Boundless Playgrounds projects benefit children with and without disabilities by providing opportunities for all children to play together side-by-side. The playgrounds contain an amazing array of barrier-free and developmentally advantageous play activities. |
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| National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities |
| http://www.nichcy.org/ |
| Anyone can use our services—families, educators, administrators, journalists, students. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22). |
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| National Institute for Play |
| http://nifplay.org |
| The National Institute for Play is a non-profit public benefit corporation led by the founder, Dr. Stuart Brown. |
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| National Library of Medicine |
| www.nlm.nih.gov |
| Created by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health, the world's largest medical library, MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, list of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. |
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| NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders) |
| www.rarediseases.org |
| The National Organization of Rare Disorders is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service. |
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| Parents helping Parents |
| http://www.php.com/en |
| PHP provides education and skills training, information, guidance, and peer support for families with the unexpected diagnosis of and ongoing impact of childhood disabilities, including but not limited to intellectual, learning or physical disabilities and special health care needs. |
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| Pathways Awareness Foundation |
| www.pathwaysawareness.org |
| Pathways is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the benefit of early detection and therapy for infants and children with physical movement differences. In addition, Pathways highlights the importance of inclusion of children and young adults by promoting the same respect and opportunity to participate in their communities, schools, recreation and houses of worship. Pathways activities are based upon the expertise of the Pathways Medical Round Table - leading physicians, clinicians, nurse practitioners and lay advisors. We are sensitive to the medical and emotional needs of infants and children with physical movement differences, including cerebral palsy, and their families and/or caregivers. We have a "parent-answered" toll-free number where we offer service, support and resources for our callers. |
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| Simplified Technology-Linda Burkhart |
| http://www.Lburkhart.com |
| Resources about Early Learners, Augmentative Communication and Assistive Technology |
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| U.S. Department of Education |
| www.ed.gov |
| The mission of the U.S. Department of Education is to ensure the equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. |
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