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categories: Assistive Technology, Fun Stuff, Organizations & Advocacy
Links, Other Links, and State & Federal Links.
Parent Support
Bridges4Kids
http://www.bridges4kids.org
Children's Choice Community Resources
http://www.dmc.org/healthplans/childrenschoice/community/
A
comprehensive, downloadable list of resources for Michigan families of
children with special needs.
Children's Special Health Care Services (CSHCS)
http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2943_4845_5036-15087--,00.html
Children's Special Health Care Services (CSHCS) is a program within the
Department of Community Health. It is for children and some adults with
special health care needs and their families.
Citizens Alliance to Uphold Special Education
http://www.causeonline.org
Family Village
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx
An on-line disability related community with a wealth of support and
resources.
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services
http://www.mpas.org/HomePage.asp
Michigan Special Education Information
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-5233_5988-13889--,00.html
Special education information for parents and students living in Michigan.
The Pacer Center
http://www.pacer.org
Special Needs Resource Network
http://www.snrn.org/
The purpose of this site is to provide the most extensive listing of
information and resources for the family, friends and caretakers of
Special Needs Children/Adults.
Assistive Technology
http://www.michiganloanfunds.org
Managed by UCP of Michigan, these are loans to and for people with
disabilities to assist them in acquiring assistive technology.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
American Sign Language Browser and video demonstrations of words and
phrases.
www.magnifiers.org
Accessible games for blind and visually impaired. Extensive shareware
collection of Windows-specific text-to-speech software, alternative mouse
software, reading software, screen magnifiers, and screen readers.
http://www.webadapt.org
The IBM Web Adaptation Technology software is designed to make the Web
easier to use. This is accomplished by making transformations and
adaptations during your Web browsing according to your personal
preferences. Your Web experience can be improved in a number of ways. For
example, you can enhance the readability of pages, reduce visual clutter
of some pages, make your browser easier to use, make your mouse and
keyboard easier to use, or have text read aloud to you. Importantly, you
can apply transformations in combination.
http://www.abledata.com
The premier source for assistive technology
http://www.techconnections.org
Connecting People and Assistive Technology
http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/
Click-N-Type a great, FREE, onscreen keyboard with word prediction and
dwell clicking.
www.trace.wisc.edu
Trace Research and Development Center
http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials.php
Online assistive technology tutorials
www.langa.com
Resource for computer help and information.
http://www.cenmi.org/matr/Default.asp
Michigan's Assistive Technology Resource (MATR)
Fun Stuff
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf
Singing horses-just click on the horses for some doo-wap.
Disability
Resources, Organizations &
Advocacy Links
E-LearnAbility Community
http://miworks.elearnability.net/default.aspx
The E-LearnAbility Community is the premier connection point for
organizations and individuals in Michigan interested in disability issues.
Click here for more information about the E-LearnAbility Community. This
website is the Michigan Works! Association Port-of-entry for the E-LearnAbility
Community. Funded by a grant from the Michigan Works! Association, this
port of entry is the first site in our project.
www.makoa.org
Makoa - disAbility information and resource categories
www.copower.org
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition
http://www.disabilitypolicycenter.org/
Center for the Study and Advancement of disAbility Policy (CSADP)
http://www.fape.org/
Families and Advocates Partnership for Education - FAPE
www.ldresources.com
A terrific resource for free/shareware, lots of links to extremely useful
information.
www.wrightslaw.com
Special education law and advocacy
www.jimmullen.com
Provides free computers to people with disabilities in the United States.
www.ucpa.org
Information about cerebral palsy.
http://www.aucd.org/aucd_medicaid.htm
Medicaid Reform Information Page - Medicaid is the most valuable public
resource for children and adults with disabilities to access health and
long-term supports and services in the community. The nation's largest
program serving the needs of low-income Americans with disabilities,
Medicaid serves nearly 11 million people with disabilities, of whom 7
million are under age 65. With so many federal policy decisions being made
related to Medicaid, AUCD has created this site to help network members
and the public navigate all the information about new proposals to reform
Medicaid and information about legislation and public policy changes
related to Olmstead.
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/index.shtml
The Center for An Accessible Society is a national organization designed
to focus public attention on disability and independent living issues by
disseminating information developed through NIDRR-funded research to
promote independent living.
Other Links
http://comnet.org/kenny/eq_index.html
The Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan's Equipment Connection: Sell or buy
used equipment
http://wordweb.info/free/
A free dictionary/thesaurus that can be summoned from within any Windows
text-processing application.
http://support.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Knowledge Base for Microsoft Products
www.ela.org
Scholarships for women with disabilities.
State & Federal Links
www.michigan.gov
Official State of Michigan website
www.disAbilityinfo.gov
A comprehensive Federal website of disAbility-related government
resources.
www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/
U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education
 Contact
Us
disAbility Connections
409 Linden Avenue
Jackson, MI 49203
Phone: (517) 782-6054
Fax: (517) 782-3118
Web:
http://www.disAbilityconnect.org
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