Related Links

ABLEDATA is a federally funded project whose primary 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.
Back to Top

Access-Able Travel Source is dedicated to aiding travelers with disabilities and the mature traveler. We accomplish this by having practical information needed to go cross-town or around the world. The database has not only accessible accommodations but also everything to make a trip fun and exciting.
Back to Top

Adaptive Environments Center, Inc. addresses the environmental issues that confront people with disabilities. We promote accessibility through education programs, technical assistance, training, consulting, publications and design advocacy.
Back to Top

Advocacy, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation funded by the United States Congress to protect and advocate for the legal rights of people with disabilities in Texas. It is not a part of state or local government. It has offices throughout the State of Texas, and a Board of Directors appointed mainly by disability organizations.
Back to Top

The Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization that provides education, advocacy and support for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and their families. Our purpose is to ensure that individuals' rights are respected and to enhance the quality of life for individuals with disabilities.
Back to Top

Alliance for Technology Access Our mission is to connect children and adults with disabilities to technology tools. Today's technology is redefining what it means to have a disability.
Back to Top

The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) began in 1983 as the Disabled Children's Computer Group, a cooperative effort by parents, professionals and people with disabilities to harness the emerging power of computer technology to aide children with disabilities. CforAT has grown to become a consumer-based technology resource and demonstration center for adults and children with disabilities, families, teachers, and professionals.
Back to Top

Disability Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play independently.
Back to Top

East Tennessee Technology Access Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities reach their potential for learning, working, speaking and living through the use of assistive technology. ETTAC works with people of all ages and with all disabilities, as well as with parents, children, adults, schools, businesses and health care providers. ETTAC provides information, performs individual evaluations, presents workshops and inservice trainings, and manages a loaner program of assistive devices and toys.
Back to Top

Enable empowers people with disabilities to achieve their goals (in work, home, school and play) in harmony with the community. Enable provides assessment, instruction, therapy and support for children and adults with disabilities and their families.
Back to Top

Exceptional Parent Magazine Provides information, support, ideas, encouragement and outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities and the professionals who work with them.
Back to Top

The Families and Advocate Partnership for Education is a new project that aims to inform and educate families and advocates about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA 97). The Partnership helps to ensure that the changes made in IDEA are understood by families and advocates and are put into practice at local and state levels.
Back to Top

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.
Back to Top

The Federation for Children with Special Needs is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. We can help! Organized in 1975 as a coalition of parent groups representing children with a variety of disabilities, the Federation operates a Parent Center, which offers a variety of services to parents, parent groups, and others who are concerned with children with special needs.
Back to Top

HalfthePlanet, Inc. The Internet portal where the entire disability community can access reliable services and products, connect with peer support, and keep up with disability-related news and information all day, every day.
Back to Top

The HealthLinks.net website is a free World-Wide Directory - Portal Service for healthcare professionals and consumers. Our main focus is to assist in the task of locating medical and healthcare information, products, resources, services and practitioners on the World-Wide-Web.
Back to Top

Helen Keller Services For the Blind is a renowned non-profit agency with a spectrum of special services that guide legally blind New Yorkers, young and old alike, toward a life of independence and success. With its diverse services, HKSB often works one on one to teach, educate and rehabilitate more than 6,000 clients according to individual needs. Its facilities throughout metropolitan New York serve residents of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Back to Top

The Institute for Child Health Policy, a state-wide Institution of Florida's State University System, was established in October 1986. The Institute has headquarters at the University of Florida, in Gainesville and affiliates at the University of South Florida, Florida State University and the University of Miami.  The Institute for Child Health Policy has focused its attention on children in managed care with special a emphasis on children with special health care needs.
Back to Top

KidTHINC is dedicated to providing a free, safe, and happy interactive environment for young people receiving health services in the New York metropolitan area, so that they can communicate with one another and with parents, friends, doctors, nurses, and special guests.
Back to Top

Linked Information Networks for Kids with Disabilities
The LiNKd Project develops and evaluates the use of electronic resources to facilitate the coordination and care fro children with disabilities living in rural and urban settings in Manitoba, Canada.
Back to Top

Maine Consumer Information and Technology Training Exchange Maine CITE is a statewide project designed to help make assistive and universally designed technology more available to Maine children and adults who have disabilities.
Back to Top

Massachusetts Assistive Technology Partnership (MATP) is funded under the Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act (Tech Act), through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of the MATP is to increase access to assistive technology for people of all ages and all disabilities through a variety of consumer-focused activities.
Back to Top

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education Our mission is to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education and to foster relationships between home, school, and community that can enhance the education of all our nation's young people.
Back to Top

National Federation of the Blind The Purpose of NFB is to help blind persons achieve self-confidence and self-respect and to act as a vehicle for collective self-expression by the blind. We provide public education about blindness, information and referral services, scholarships, literature and publications, aids and appliances, advocacy services and protection of civil rights, technology, and support.
Back to Top

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
Back to Top

The National Organization on Disability promotes the full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
Back to Top

National Rehabilitation Information Center has collected and disseminated the results of federally funded research projects for 20 years. NARIC's literature collection, which also includes commercially published books, journal articles, and audiovisuals, averages around 200 new documents per month. NARIC is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person.
Back to Top

New York State's Parent Training & Information Center Professionals to enable individuals with disabilities to seek their own potential. Congressional intent is for parent involvement! A PTI is an organization staffed by experienced parents who have been trained to bring up-to-date information to: families with children with disabilities, professionals who work with such families, and members of the community who are interested in improving the quality of life for the people with disabilities.
Back to Top

Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
PACER Center is a nonprofit, tax exempt Minnesota statewide organization began in 1977. PACER’s mission is to improve and expand opportunities that enhance the quality of life for children and young adults with all disabilities – physical, mental, emotional, learning – and their families. PACER now offers 21 major programs, including Parent Training programs, programs for students and schools, and technical assistance to other parent centers both regionally and nationally.
Back to Top

Tech Connections A one-stop resource for information on Assistive Technology (AT) designed to accommodate people with disabilities in the workplace and in everyday life activities.
Back to Top

The Vermont Parent Information Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing and expanding educational and developmental opportunities that improve the quality of life for children with special needs and their families.
Back to Top

World Association of Persons with Disabilities WAPD advances the interests of persons with disabilities at national, state, local and home levels. WAPD links the disabled and supporters to current "leading edge" disability information via the various mediums of communication.
Back to Top

The World Institute on Disability is a non-profit public policy center dedicated to the promotion of independence and full inclusion in society of people with disabilities. Founded in 1983 by leaders of the Independent Living/Civil Rights Movement for people with disabilities, WID is committed to bringing policy into action.
Back to Top

KidNeeds.com is committed to providing our visitors and subscribers with access to accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics relative to developmental disabilities. If you have any special requests or would like to see a specific topic covered in this informational section, please e-mail us at info@kidneeds.com

Back to Top

 

 

  Assistive Technology - A Parent's Perspective
  Children Online
Computers and Special Needs
  Including Assistive Technology In The Standard Curriculum
  The Individual Family Service Plan
  Making Computers Accessible To All Built-In Accessibility Options
  A Parent's Guide to Doctors, Disabilities and The Family
  Tales From The Toy Side
What is Special Oral Health Care
Your Child's Evaluation