| ACCESSIBILITY RESOURCES
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Access board is an independent federal agency that devlops accessibility standards and guidelines for facilities and technology.
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| ACCOMMODATIONS
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Job Accommodation Network(JAN) is a cosulting service that provides information about job accommodation, ADA, and the employabilitty of people with disabilities.
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| ADA Basic Building Blocks
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Contains a web course which explores the legal requirements and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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| ADA Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers(DBTAC)
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provides information, training, and technical assistance on the ADA and accessible electronic and information tehcnology in education.
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| Adaptive Environments Center,Inc.
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promotes accessibility as well as universal design through education programs, technical assistance, training, consulting, publications, and design advocacy.
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| Alliance For Technology Access(ATA)
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Connects children and adults with disabilities to technology tools through public awareness ans special initiaties.
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| Assitive Technology Resource
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is an online searchable database of assitive technology designed to help target solutions, determine costs, and link to vendors that sell products.
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| Autism Society of America, Inc.
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7910 Woodmont Avnue, #650, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301/657-0881 V, 800/3-AUTISM
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| Beach Center on Families and Disability
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Bureau of Child Research, University of Kansas, 3111 Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, 913/864-7600, Fax 913/864-7605
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| Bobby Worldwide
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Bobby Worldwide is a low cost web software tool to hepl expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing public and private standards.
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| Brave Kids
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Brave Kids is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of children with chronic, life-threatening illnesses or disabilities, using the power of the Internet.
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| Career OneStop Testing and Assessment Center
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These centers contain a range of career assessment strategies, testing guides, and planning resources including links to different types of career assessments, employer guidelines for tsting, and certification and credentialing information.
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| Career Planning Begins with Assessment
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To succesfully make the transition from school to adult life and the world of work, adolescents and young adults need guidance and encouragement from caring, suppotive adults. The best decisions and chocies made by transitioning youth are based on sound i
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| Center for Applied Special Technology(CAST)
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devlops and disseminates products that expand opportunity for learning through unviersal design, including through the devlopment and innovative uses of technology.
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| Center for Universal Design
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is a national research,information, and technical assistance center that evaluates,dedvlops, and promotes unversal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.
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| Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders (CH.A.D.D.)
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8181 Professional Place, Suite 201; Landover, MD 20785; 301-306-7070; 301-306-7090 FAX
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| Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education
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This code presents standards for educational test developers and users in devloping and selecting test, interpreting scores, striving for fairness, and informing test takers.
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| Cynthia Says Portal
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free web content accessibility validation tool for checking websites against various accessibility standards.
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| Educatio Testing Service (ETS)
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ET'S website contains information and testing policies for test such as SAT, GRE, PRAXIS,TOEFL,(Test of Engglisg as a Foregin Language), and other tests published by ETS.
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| Electronic & Information Technology Accessibility
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Section 508 Guidance offers eletronic and information technology accessibility standards, guidance, and resources.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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American Psychological Association provides publications, fact sheet, and general information on psychology, including a comsumer help center and public education resources.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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National Alliance for Mentally III is a nonprofit self-help, support,and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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Natoinal Mental Health Association is a national pubilc education,training, and technical assistance resource for information on mental illness treatments,and includes a resource center for rerrals to local Mental Health Associations.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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Internet Mental Health is a free internet-based encyclopedia of mental health information.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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The Center of Mental Health Service(CMHS)is the primary information resource for federal mental health progams and topical publications, and includes a telephone information center.
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| Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Disabilities
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American Psychiatric Association is an organization that provides publications, fact sheets,and general information on psychiatry including information on psychiatric disorders and medications.
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| Epilepsy Foundation of America (and National Epilepsy Library & Resource Center)
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4351 Garden City Dr., Landover, MD 20785, 301/459-3700, 800/332-1000, 800/332-2070 TTY, Fax 301/577-2684
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| ERIC Clearinghouse on Disability & Gifted Education
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1920 Association Dr., Reston, VA 22091, 703/620-3660 V, Fax 703/264-9494
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| Family Voices
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Partnering with professionals and families to advocate for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent
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| Grassroots Consortium on Disabilities
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The Grassroots Consortium on Disabilities is a national coalition of community-based, parent directed, family support and information programs serving culturally and linguistically diverse families who have children with disabilities and are living in tra
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| High School/ High Tech Program
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This resource provides a foundation
for developing partnerships to increase the pipeline of young people preparing for jobs in technology-related occupations. Using evidence-based quality design features,HS/HT builds collaborations with organizations to
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| Information Technology Techical Assistance and Training Center(ITTATC)
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provides information, training,and technical assistance about accessible electronic and information technology.
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| Internet Accessibility World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)
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Develops common protocols that promote the internet's evolution and ensure its interoperability,including web accessibility to and usability for people with disabilities.
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| Learning Disabilities
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LD Online is a service that provides background information, publications,and bulletin boards to exchange ideas.
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| Learning Disabilities
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International Dyslexia is a source for publication,product, and referral information as well as legislative and research data.
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| Learning Disabilities
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National Resource Center on AD/HD is a national clearinghouse of information and resources to answer questions concerning Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disoder; it can also direct visitors to other reiable sources online.
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| Learning Disabilities
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Learning Disabilities Association of America is an organization for people with leanring disabilities that produces facts sheets, resources, and legislative informatiom, and provides contact information for state learning disability organizations.
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| Learning Disabilities
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National Center for Learning Disabilities provides background information, referral services for people with learning disabilities.
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| Learning Disabilities Association of America
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4156 Library Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15234, 412/341-1515, 341-8077 V, Fax 412-344-0224
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| March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
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1275 Mamaroneck Av., White Plains, NY 10605, 914/428-7100 V/TTY, Fax 914/428-8203
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| MISCELLANEOUS SITES
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National Dissemination Center For Children with Disabilities provides pubilcations,information, referrals, and listings of disability-related organizations and professional association at the state and local level.
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| National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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200 No. Glebe Rd. #1015, Arlington, VA 22203-3754, 703/524-7600 V, 703/516-7991 TTY, 800/950-NAMI, Fax 703/524-9094
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| National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI)
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P.O. Box 317, Watertown, MA 02272, 617/972-7441, 800/562-6265, Fax 617/972-7444
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| National Association of the Deaf
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814 Thayer Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910-4500, 301/587-1788, 301/587-1789 TTY, Fax 301/587-1791
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| National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
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is a resource for making media and information technology, including a captioning, accessible for people with disabilities.
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| National Center on Accessible information Technology in Education(AccessIT
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centers on the use of electronics and information technology for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels.
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| National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for youth
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The NCWD/ Yuoth website contains resources and publications on issuse relating to youth with disabilities, including assessment. Of particular interest are Chapter6 of the High School/high Tech Manual(listed separately above0 and the new assessment guide
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| National Down Syndrome Society
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666 Broadway, #810, New York, NY 10012-2317, 212/460-9330 V, 800/221-4602, Fax 212/979-2873
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| National Fragile X Foundation
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1441 York St., #303, Denver, CO 80206, 303/333-6155, 800/688-8765
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| National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1492, Washington, DC 20013, 202/884-8200 V/TTY, 800/695-0285 V/TTY, Fax 202/884-8441
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| National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
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P.O. Box 8923, New Fairfield, CT 06812, 203/746-6518, 202/746-6927 TTY, 800/999-NORD V, Fax 203/746-6481
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| One Stop Accessibility Guidance
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is a manual to assist the workforce development system in meeting needs of customers with disabilities.
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| SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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provides information to policymakers, practitoners,and the general public about substance abuse, including it's prevention and treatment and its related to other problems.
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| SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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Council on Prevention and Education:Substances,Inc. provides consulation, education, and training services on substance abuse pervention.
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| SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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Just Facts.org is a youth-focused website containing information on alcohol and drugs use.
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| Technical Assistance Alliance to Parent Programs
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The Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers is an innovative project that supports a unified technical assistance system for the purpose of developing, assisting and coordinating Parent Training and Information Projects and Community Parent Resou
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| the Job accommodation Network
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is a free consluting service that provides information about job accommodations, the ADA, and the employability of people with disabilities.
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| Trace Center
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develops universally designed products and systems to make standard information technologies and telecommunications accessible to and usable by people with disabilities.
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| Transition Coalition
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This website provides tools such an online book,Assessments for Transition Planning, and information on the purpose of transition assessment, satndardized and informal assessments,and administration guidelines.
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| Traumatic Brain Injury
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Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide explains head injury in understandable language and is intended to assist individauls and their families.
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| Traumatic Brain Injury
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National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury provides partical information for professionals, persons with brain injury, and family members.
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| Traumatic Brain Injury
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Traumatic Brain Injury National Data Center(and Models Systems) contains a registry of centers that specialize in traumatic brain injury as well as research and publications.
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| WeABLE
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provides extensive resources for ensuring access to information technologies for people with disabilities.
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| Web Accessibility in Mind(WebAIM)
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addresses web accessibility through online learning opportunities and its WAVE tool(http://www.wave.webaim.org) to help web authors verify that their websites are accessible to people with disabilities.
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| WIA Section 188 Disability Checklist
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identifies the basic disability-related requirements of the nondiscrimination provision of the Workforce Investment Act.
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