Organizations and Groups

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Disability Organizations and Groups:

United States:

  • American Foundation for the Blind - The American Foundation for the Blind—the organization to which Helen Keller devoted her life—is a national nonprofit whose mission is to ensure that the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other citizens.
  • American Association of People with Disabilities - AAPD 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.
  • Act2gether International - An advocacy group promoting community, education, and accessability empowerment classes.
  • The Arc - The Arc is the national organization of and for people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families.
  • The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) - The nationally recognized professional association of more than 40,000 occupational therapists
  • Disability Organizations by state
  • National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)> - The mission of the National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) is to expand the participation and contribution of America’s 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
  • National Council on Disability - The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues affecting 54 million Americans with disabilities.
  • CyberCIL of Arizona - A virtual centre of Independent Living
  • Nail Patella Syndrome Group - The purpose of the website is to provide information to each specialist field of medicine so that they may recognize those with NPS, as well as to provide contact personnel
  • Spectrum for Living - A USA based non-profit organization that provides services to multiply disabled individuals
  • National Business and Disability Council
  • Spinal Cord Injury Network - non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating access to quality health care by providing information and referral services to spinal-cord-injured individuals and their families.
  • Spectrum for Living - a not for profit organization that helps adults with developmental disabilities achieve their potential.
  • Easter Seals Website - Easter Seals provides services to children and adults with disabilities and other special needs, and support to their families.
  • American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR)
  • People to People Committee on Disability
  • Awear - An organisation of disabled people and fashion industry professionals seeking to ensure that disabled people have full and direct access to fashionable clothes of their choice.

    • Canada:

  • IBDE (Internet Business Development for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities) - The purpose of IBDE is to teach people with disabilities how to create a home-based Internet web store allowing them to create an income for themselves by selling artisan's products.
  • Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities - The Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities exists to support professionals and students working and pursuing careers in the field of developmental disabilities.
  • Goodwill Toronto - A non profit organization in Toronto, Canada that provides supported employment programs for individuals with a developmental disability.
  • Muki Baum Association - a non profit in Toronto, Canada that provides services to both children and adults with developmental disabilities and emotional disabilities.
  • Canadian Association for Physicians with a Disability
  • Ontario March of Dimes - Independence for adults with disabilities (Canada)
  • Rick Hansen Institute - Spinal Cord Injury research and resources, as well as all of the good things that the Institute is doing.
  • Charity Village - Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector. There are 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers located here.
  • Disabled Women's Network Ontario
  • A.N.D. Canada - The Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada
  • Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
  • Canada: Easter Seal Society of Ontario, Canada
  • Ability Online Support Network
  • Canadian Disability Organizations - Yahoo! Canada

    • Other Countries/International Organizations:

  • International: Worldbank and Disability - The World Bank’s mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results. In the area of disability, it is working to ensure full participation of people with disabilities in its development work, as well as within its own organization.
  • UK: Royal National Institute for the Blind (UK)
  • UK: International Deaf Children's Society - the IDCS website aims to provide a global forum on childhood deafness for deaf children, deaf young people, their parents & carers and professionals working with them.
  • International: Disability International Foundation - providing global awareness, consultation, networking, publications, and training
  • Greece: Disabled Greece

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