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- Almanac of Policy Issues: Disability Issues - News, background information and links on disability issues, including the Americans with Disabilies Act (ADA) and Developmental Disabilities Act (DDA).
www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/disability.shtml
- CWAB.org - Site discussing the Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind in West Virginia - its operations, finances, employment practices, and performance.
www.cwab.org
- Disability is Natural - Kathie Snow's official website. Offers a new way of thinking (and talking) about disabled people, learning disabilities and physical and mental handicaps.
www.disabilityisnatural.com
- Disability, Culture and Service Issues - Selected bibliography of sources related to serving people with disabilities and disability culture.
purl.oclc.org/NET/bld2/disabilities
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial - Details the controversy over the wheelchair statue in the memorial.
americanhistory.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa050597.htm
- GYRO! Get Your Rights On-Line - Disabled young people from the PACT Society in York, UK, sounding off about disability issues and prejudices.
www.gyro-york.org.uk
- Inclusion in the Christian Church - Thoughts on inclusion written by a sibling and a person actively involved with Christian outreach to all people in her community.
www.Inclusion.4mg.com
- Mr. Long-Term Care - Articles, interviews, and essays on disability and the long-term care crisis.
www.mrltc.com
- Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada - An organization representing approximately 125 Canadians born disabled as a consequence of the drug Thalidomide. Site has position paper on the proposal to begin using the drug again.
www.thalidomide.ca/english/index.htm
- The Media Edge - How to write opinion articles that editors will actually use.
www.ragged-edge-mag.com/0599/c599me.htm
- The Trigger, the Pen and the Switch - Was Georgette Smith's death too quick? Should the law be changed?
www.ragged-edge-mag.com/0799/d799ft1.htm
- The Way America Treats The Disabled - Tommy Allen Thompson's account of his experience with job discrimination.
www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/braker/1160/information/index.html
- Win Phatak's Living with Disability and Dignity - Articles on the experience of disabled persons and the state of the law in India.
www.winphatak.com
- [About.com] Adoption Ability, Not Disability - Article for disabled would-be adoptive parents.
adoption.about.com/library/weekly/aa081099.htm?pid=2803&cob=home
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