People - With Disabilities

By Donna L. Gilton

General Websites

• Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page.
• Apple Computer. Accessibility.
• Davis, Barbara Gross. Academic Accommodations for Students With Disabilities.
• Library of Congress (LC). Accessibility Home.
• LC. Accessibility: FAQs.
• LC. Accessibility Services For Researchers.
• LC. National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
• New York Public Library (NYPL). Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library.
• NYPL. _____. Community.
• University of Rhode Island. Office of Student Life. Disability Services.
• U. S. Department of Education. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. ABLEDATA: Your Source For Assistive Technology Information.
• Western Kentucky University Libraries and Museum. Department of Library Public Services. Library Services and Equipment for Patrons With Disabilities.

This website includes more information on how to make websites accessible to all.

Blindness (Visual Disabilities)

• American Foundation for the Blind.
• Blind Net.
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Libraries Serving People With Print Disabilities Section.
• National Library of Canada. Council on Access to Information for Print-disabled Canadians.
• New York Institute for Special Education. Blindness Resource Center.
• Blind World: Resources For Parents and Teachers of Children With Visual Impairments.

Deafness and Deaf-Blindness (Auditory Disabilities)

• Blindness Resource Center. Deaf-Blind/Hearing Disability Resources.
• National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness.
• Deaf Studies.
• Deaf Studies Research in the AVC Library
• Deafness
• Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action. (FOLDA).
• Gallaudet University. Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. About the Clerc Center.
• _____. _____. Info to Go.
• _____._____.Info to Go: Language and Literacy.
• Gallaudet U. Library. Deaf Research Help: Communicating in the Library With People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
• _____. _____. Deaf Research Guides.
• National Association of the Deaf.
• NYPL. Community. Auditory Disabilities.
• Rochester Institute of Technology. Deaf Studies Internet Resources.
• State of Rhode Island. Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Learning Disabilities

• All Kinds of Minds.
• LD Online.
• LD Online. Teaching and Instruction.
• Misunderstood Minds.
• Movement for Canadian Literacy. Literacy and Learning Disabilities.

See also sites on Multiple Intelligence

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