RESOURCES

List of websites with information and resources for people with disabilities, family, support personnel, and professionals.

General Information/Services/Resources

• Pennsylvania Office of Developmental Programs, Department of Public Welfare www.dpw.state.pa.us/ServicesPrograms/MentalRetardation
• Administration on Developmental Disabilities, US Department of Health and Human Services www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/add/
• Americans with Disabilities Act www.ada.gov/
• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities www.aaidd.org
• Pennsylvania Department of Aging www.aging.state.pa.us
• Special Kids Network www.health.state.pa.us/skn
• Arc of Pennsylvania www.thearcpa.org
• Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network www.pattan.k12.pa.us
• NICHCY - National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities www.nichcy.org
• The International Center for Disability Resources www.icdri.org
• Liberty Resources - Philadelphia www.libertyresources.org
• Pennsylvania Department on Aging www.aging.state.pa.us
• United Cerebral Palsy www.ucp.org
• Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=552292&mode=2
  Directory of OVR Offices http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/vocational_rehabilitation/10356/ovr_office_directory/606620
• Disability is Natural www.disabilityisnatural.com
• Office of Behavioral Health (Delaware County) www.co.delaware.pa.us/humanservices/obh/behavhealth.html
• My City My Place - Philadelphia www.mycitymyplace.com
• Associated Services for the Blind www.asb.org/main/index.htm
• Blindness and Visual Services www.dli.state.pa.us/landi/cwp/view.asp?a=128&Q=190368
• Mayor's Commission on People with Disabilities (Philadelphia) www.phila.gov/mcpd
• Mayor's Commission on Literacy - Philadelphia http://libwww.freelibrary.org/mcol
• Kids Camps.com www.kidscamps.com
• Networks for Training and Development www.networksfortraining.org
• The Quality Mall www.qualitymall.org Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing www.dli.state.pa.us/landi/cwp/view.asp?a=128&q=245997
• Mental Health Association of Pennsylvania www.mhapa.org
• Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation www.patf.us

Accessible Housing - Philadelphia

• Philadelphia Housing Authority www.pha.phila.gov/housing/Accessibility
• City of Philadelphia Office of Housing & Community Development www.phila.gov/OHCD
• The Housing and Disability Technical Assistance Program (TAP) www.newsontap.org

Accessible Housing - Pennsylvania

• Self Determination Housing Project (SDHP) www.sdhp.org
• Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency: www.phfa.org/consumers/homeowners/renovate_repair

Education/Inclusive Education/Transition

• Pennsylvania Department of Education www. pde.state.pa.us
• Pennsylvania Education for All www.paedforall.org
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition www.ncset.org
• Transition Coalition http://transitioncoalition.org/transition
• Wrightslaw www.wrightslaw.com
• The Inclusion Daily Express www.inclusiondaily.com
• The Institute for Community Inclusion www.communityinclusion.org
• Education World www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr034.shtml
• Inclusion.com www.inclusion.com/inclusion.html

Parents and Family Networking and Information

• Parent Education Network www.parentednet.org
• Parent to Parent of Pennsylvania www.parenttoparent.org

Employment/Transition/Volunteerism

• Careerlink www.pacareerlink.com
• Volunteer Match www.volunteermatch.org

Advocacy

• Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Protection and Advocacy Office Disability Law Project http://drnpa.org
• The Education Law Center http://www.elc-pa.org
• Pennsylvania Health Law Project http://www.phlp.org
• Cap4Kids-The Children's Advocacy Project of Philadelphia http://www.cap4kids.org/philadelphia/
• Pennsylvania One Voice Coalition http://www.paonevoice.com/index.html

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• CommunicatePA: Everyone Communicates—Information About Augmentative and Alternative Communication http://communicatepa.wikispaces.com
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/
• AAC Institute http://www.aacinstitute.org/
• AAC-Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers http://www.aac-rerc.com/
• International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication http://www.isaac-online.org/english/home
• Technology & Language Center, Inc. http://www.technologyandlanguage.com/
• United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication http://www.ussaac.org/
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication Connecting Young Kids (YAACK) http://aac.unl.edu/yaack/

History of Disability

• Visionary Voices | Leaders. Lessons. Legacy. http://disabilities.temple.edu/programs/voices
• American Eugenics Movement www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics
• Chronology of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States from 1817-1996 http://www.sfsu.edu/~dprc/chronology/
• Disability History Museum www.museumofdisability.com
• Holocaust Museum: Treatment of the Handicapped www.holocaust-trc.org/hndcp.htm
• Parallels in Time www.mnddc.org/parallels/index.html

Autism

• Penn Autism Network http://www.med.upenn.edu/pan/
• Pennsylvania Department of Welfare-Autism Insurance Act (Act 62) http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/foradults/autismservices/paautisminsuranceact62/
• Wrightslaw - Autsim http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/autism.index.htm
• Autism Society of America http://www.autism-society.org/
• Untangle Autism http://www.untangleautism.org/
• MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syndrome http://www.maapservices.org/
• Online Asperger Syndrome Information & Support http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/
• ASCEND-The Asperger Syndrome Alliance for Greater Philadelphia http://www.ascendgroup.org/
• Autism Society of America—Philadelphia Chapter http://www.asaphilly.org/

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