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Assistance Dogs
Dog for the Deaf was founded in 1977 by the late Roy G. Kabat, a long-time Hollywood and circus animal trainer who raised animals for motion pictures and television shows including "Dr. Doolittle" and "Born Free." DFD is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit agency with the mission to rescue and professionally train dogs to assist people and enhance their lives. Voice/TDD: (541) 826-9220.
Paws With A Cause® trains Assistance Dogs nationally for people with disabilities and provides lifetime team support which encourages independence. PAWS® promotes awareness through education.
Counselors with ASL
Finding counselors who are fluent in ASL or a foreign language (other than English) in Washington State can be difficult. As a public service this website offers free listings to masters level Washington State counselors, if they can use American Sign Language or a foreign language well enough to offer counseling services to the public. Unless they are employed at a publically funded agency, these are generally counselors in private practice who make their living by charging for their services. Discuss costs with the individual counselor.
Additional resources: A great variety of Information is available in eleven languages at Washington LawHelp is provided as a public service by the Northwest Justice Project and other legal aid providers in the Alliance for Equal Justice and Washington courts. [Click on the appropriate language listed at the bottom of the right hand column.]
Employment / Careers
DisAbility Online: The US Department of Labor. Employment and Training Resources contains extensive information about all areas of disability.
The Office for Personnel Management has a web site to assist people with disabilities who are looking for federal government jobs.
Disability Etiquette Handbook: Intended for employers, this handbook explains how to properly deal with persons with disabilities.
Disabled Public Service Employee's Association is an organization that is made up, primarily, of former and current high risk public service personnel in law enforcement, fire services, and emergency medical personnel. Our sole aim is to aid our fallen brothers and sisters that have suffered a career ending injury, or potentially career ending injury, in the line of duty.
ExceptionalNurse.com "is a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 resource network committed to inclusion of more people with disabilities in the nursing profession. By sharing information and resources, ExceptionalNurse.com hopes to facilitate inclusion of students with disabilities in nursing education programs and foster resilience and continued practice for nurses who are, or become, disabled."
Information Technology
Accessibility on Websites--The Cynthia Says portal is a joint Education and Outreach project of the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter. Cynthia contains a validation tool for web content accessibility. It is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
CounselingSeattle.com's collection of medical search engines.
Web Accessibility Initiative: W3C guidelines for developers and content providers to make information accessible to people who have disabilities.
Legal Rights
Rights of People with Disabilities: This material explains the rights of disabled persons in the areas of education, employment, housing and public accommodations.
Americans with Disabilities Act, US Department of Justice, Reports and Publications (check the list under ADA).
The US Access Board, an independent federal agency devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities.
National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research.
Recordings / Books
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic The nation's educational library for people with print disabilities.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: A Library of Congress program providing free library programs and circulating Braille and Recorded materials to eligible blind and physically handicapped persons.
Senior Citizen Resources
Free Senior Citizens Solutions: intended as a free resource for senior citizens regarding Medicare, Medicaid, Medigap policies, discounts for senior citizens and other essential information for independent living.
Women's Issues
National Women's Health Information Center created this web site, Women with Disabilities, to help women overcome social, financial, physical, or other kinds of barriers to health care services and information. It puts a wealth of useful information together into one place for women with disabilities, caretakers, health professionals, and researchers.
Grants and Scholarships for Women with Disabilities: Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation (ELA) provides grants to non-profit organizations and scholarship women with a physical disability who are pursuing graduate studies at a university in the United States and for women who are involved in the disability community in their local area.
Other Resources
American Association of People with Disabilities is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in the United States, dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and political empowerment for the more than 56 million Americans with disabilities.
Vision Aware (A program of AWARE) A Self-Help Resource Center for Vision Loss Rehabilitation and Education --Resource Links to service sources for blind or low vision persons.
Cornucopia of Disability Information: CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. It consists of both an Internet Directory of Disability Information and a repository of electronic disability documents, dating back to the early 1990s. Many of the documents on CODI are publicly available nowhere else on the Internet.
CounselingSeattle.com's collection of links to Disability Support Groups.
Disabilities-Online is a directory of information available on the World Wide Web for people with disabilities, their families and friends.
Disability Etiquette, and other free booklets from the United Spinal Association can be ordered (or printed out) free online. It is a good resource for counselors, social workers, and others who work with people with disabilities, as well as for families and friends.
ELA Foundation = The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation was founded by Margaret Staton in 1994 to “Change the Face of Disability on the Planet”. Named after her maternal grandmother, ELA seeks especially to support the work of organizations that are led by or support the work of women with disabilities by promoting, through grants and scholarships, the inclusion of people with disabilities in the areas of arts, advocacy and education.
The Eldercare Locator has helped older adults and their caregivers since 1991. The U.S. Administration on Aging is now pleased to make part of this service available on-line so that consumers can easily link to the information and referral (I&R) services of their state and area agencies on aging. Just enter your state and zip code to identify appropriate services in the area where you or your family member resides. Telephone the Eldercare Locator toll-free 1-800-677-1116 to speak to an Information Specialist who has access to a database of more than 4,800 entries (Operates Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time)
Great Outdoor Recreation Locations, accessible national parks, trails, beaches, rivers and lakes.
HOMES and HOME Financing: Comprehensive guide to housing and mortgages for people with disabilities. It covers terminology, the process of buying a house, financial assistance and more.
Life Challenges: The CyberCenter for Living Creatively with Life's Challenges. Life Challenges is about helping you seed, grow and harvest the potential of these times in your life. The writings, tools, stories and focus of discussion have been chosen-- To remind you that you are loved and have worth and value no matter how turned around or despairing your life appears at this time-- To know that others are making the passage through challenges, too, and experiencing the same difficulties and feelings that you are-- To provide some tools that might help you through your passage--To suggest that you won't feel like this forever.
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, an information and referral center in English and in Spanish.
Search engine for disabilities organizations, Mobility International USA (MIUSA). Choose a region, county, disability and submit your query.
Spine-health.com - a website that features hundreds of articles about back and neck pain, including understanding and diagnosing of chronic pain, and a wide range of treatments for pain management and relief. The site is non-commercial (not owned or influenced by anyone trying to sell products or services), and it is unique in that all of the articles are peer reviewed by members of the site's Medical Advisory Board (similar to a medical journal review process).
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