Disability & Special Education Sites
Adaptive Technology Resource

ADA Home Page (U.S. Department of Justice Americans with Disabilities Act
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

American Sign Language Dictionary
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

ABLEDATA -Sponsored by National Institute on Disability and Rehab Research
http://www.abledata.com

Assertive Technology for Students with Disabilities
http://www.netins.net/showcase/atforum

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
http://www.cast.org

Autism-PDD Resources Network
The site contains diagnosis and treatment information plus a table of links for adults with disabilities. There is also an index by state of K-12 schools for children with learning disabilities education and Social Security benefits and a articles are found here.
http://www.autism-pdd.net

Autism Society of America
http://www.autism-society.org

Disability Social History Project
Site contains a timeline starting at 3500 B.C. up to 1995, citing important events in the history of people with disabilities. Learn about the first schools for the deaf in 1755.
http://www.disabilityhistory.org

Family Village
http://www.family_blankvillage.wisc.edu

Gifted Resource Home Page
"This Gifted Resources Page contains links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists and early acceptance programs, including CTY, EPGY, CTD, NRC/GT, TIP, RMTS, ERIC, NCSSSMSTOdyssey of the Mind, and many, many others." Is how this site describes itself.
http://www.eskimo.com/~user/kids.html

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum for students with special needs
http://www.mindplay.com/resource.html

Kids Domain
http://www.kidsdomain.com

LD Association of America
http://www.ldanatl.org

LD Online
http://www.ldonline.org

Marc's Special Education Page
Contains a large college of links to other sites.
http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/sped.html

National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.ncld.org

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
http://www.nichcy.org

Purdue's Tactile Access to Education for Visually Impaired Students(TAEVIS)540.
Braille-friendly scientific diagrams
http://www.taevisonline.purdue.edu

RESNA
This is the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assertive Technology Society of North America whose mission is to promote the adaptation and use of technology by disabled people. There is s a state-by-state directory of Assertive technology practitioners, RESNA-certified professionals who are able to assess the technology needs of disabled consumers and offer training on specific adaptive devices. Do view the Accessible Educational Technology section and its articles and guides for educators and parents of special needs students.
http://www.resna.org

SNOW-Special Needs Opportunity Window
http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.html

Special Education Site
Activities and lessons.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html

The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Disabilities
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld.html

U. S. Dept. of Education - Office of Special Education Programs ?
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/index.html

VATS
http://www.vats.org/ ?

W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
International organization that promotes Web accessibility for people with disabilities. You will find accessibility guidelines and policies. The Easy Introductions section provides quick tips and frequently asked questions about accessibility. Web designers can go to the Technology section, which has discussions of style sheets, HTML, multimedia and graphics.
http://www.w3.org/WAI

Wheelchairnet
This site contains articles and links dealing with etiquette, terms, physical fitness and recreation for wheelchair users.
http://www.wheelchairnet.org

Adaptive Technology Resources

Alliance for Technology Access
Matches people with disabilities to vendors, support services and resource centers for adaptive technology
http://www.ataccess.org

Don Johnston Inc.
Computer access products for students, you will find Discover:Switch, a device that functions as a keyboard and a mouse
http://www.donjohnston.com

Dragon Systems
Dragon Naturally-Speaking, a speech recognition program.
http://www.dragonsys.com

Henter-Joyce, Inc.
Source for information and free demo on JAWS for Windows Screen Reader software.
http://www.hj.com

Prentke Romich Company
Adaptive technology products, including Jouse, a mouth-operated joystick.
http://www.prentrom.com