disability studies

    Top: Society: Disabled: Disability_Studies:

• Top/Society/Disabled/Statistics
• Top/Science/Social Sciences

• - A resource for those looking for information relating to the natural support given by local churches to individuals with disabilities.
  
• - Disability management as defined by the Certification of Disability Management Specialists Commission is the practice of providing preventive and remedial services to minimize the impact and cost of disability and to enhance the client's productivity.
  
• - International disability news, jobs, discussion, resources. A site designed for students and professionals supporting individuals with disabilities.
  
• - Provides information to improve knowledge, policy, and practice related to including people with disabilities.
  
• - RACSN is a community-university alliance researching ways to enhance the quality of life of school-aged children with special mobility, communication, and fine motor skill needs. (Ontario)
  
• - Persons with disabilities, family members, researchers, and service providers join policy-makers and nationally recognized speakers in the field of disabilities to participate in the conference.
  
• - RTC:Rural strives to improve the ability of rural Americans with disabilities to live independently in their own communities. Researchers focus on employment, independent living, health, accessible transportation and telecommunications. (Montana)
  
• - This International journal focuses on disability research and education. Features articles, essays, and bibliographies relating to the culture of disability.
  
• - Disability civil rights movement, other important events and people with disabilities in history, and the representation of disabled people in the mass media throughout time.
  
• - A continuously updated list of programs which deal in some way with the cultural and political determinants of the disability experience.
  
• - A nonprofit scientific and educational organization established to promote interdisciplinary research on humanistic and social scientific aspects of disability and chronic illness.
  
• - Bibliography on residential care, community integration, and leisure for developmentally disabled persons. A resource for parents, students, and researchers.
  
• - An interdisciplinary centre for teaching and research in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds. (England)
  
• - An innovative and accessible initiative of the NFB’s Pacific Centre that combines traditional linear documentary storytelling with an online presence to encourage learning, as well as providing a forum for an exchange of ideas and active engagement in t
  
• - Dedicated to all aspects of Social Role Valorization - history, education, and practice. Includes academic and photographic resources.
  
• - A Hawaii University program to promote improved quality of life for persons with disabilities through core functions of interdisciplinary training, research, service, and dissemination of products and promising practices.
  
• - An annotated resource introducing and explaining the social and civil rights perspective of disability.
  
• - ADA consultants define and create strategies for accessible designs and concepts to complete the Utilitarian Design Theory.
  
• - A national resource fostering high quality research, dissemination of information, and training and education related to disability policy. (Illinois)
  
• - Works with others to create opportunities that improve the lives of persons with disabilities and their families through training, services and information.
  
• - Studies of disability in India.
  
• - Focuses on academic and community training, technical assistance, research, and information dissemination as they relate to people with developmental disabilites. University of South Dakota.
  
• - Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Courses in Disability Studies. A course of studies exploring the historical, cultural and socio-political challenges and accomplishments of the disability community and culture.
  
• - Encourages quality scholarship on issues concerning disability and communication.
  
• - Promoting pride in the history, activities, and cultural identity of individuals with disabilities throughout the world.
  
• - Laboratory aims at medical,sociological and educational research of developmental disabilities-mental retardation with chromosomal abnormality,autistic disorders,physical developmental disorders,intoxication.
  
• - Syllabi and links from Georgetown University at Washington, D.C.
  
• - A consumer-directed, university-affiliated centre involved in research and education on disability issues. Committed to fostering a spirit of collaboration between the disability and academic communities and other interested parties on initiatives of mutu
  
• - Promotes understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories.
  
• - Index of disorders, research results and possible treatments.
  
• - An academic exploration of disabled people in history through literary studies.
  
• - On-line resources for disability research from a socio-political perspective, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies.
  
• - Applies social, cultural, historical, and philosophical perspectives to the study of disability in society. Syracuse University, New York.
  
• - Online magazine publishing topics relating to the field of disability studies.
  
• - Dedicated to the scholarly, interdisciplinary study of disability and related aspects of human development. It critically examines current and prospective disability policies, conceptual models, and intervention strategies.
  
• - Collects and disseminates the results of federally funded research projects to anyone who is interested in disability and rehabilitation.