Disabilities
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- Institute on Community Integration
- Committed to preventing and reducing the limiting effects of disabilities, ICI applies its resources to improve the quality and community orientation of professional services and social supports available to individuals with disabilities and their families.
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- The Trigger, the Pen and the Switch
- Article on the killing of a woman thinking of moving her mother to a care facility. (August 18, 1999)
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- All Walks Of Life
- Prevention, response and research news on violence towards people with disabilities.
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- Disability, Abuse & Personal Rights
- Federally funded project for Disability, Abuse and Personal Rights education.
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- Disabled Abuse Resources
- Listings of and links to articles, agencies, organizations and websites to find help for and information about physical, sexual and mental abuse of disabled persons.
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- Violence and Disabled Women, by Iglesias, M.; Gil, G.; Joneken, A.; Mickler, B.; Knudsen, J.S.
- Paper from the METIS project, European Unión DAPHNE initiative.
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- Center for an Accessible Society
- Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, this US national organization promotes independent living.
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- Global Initiative to Enfranchise People with Disabilities
- Research, analysis, policy suggestions, best practices, and publications focusing on electoral access for people with disabilities. A project of the IFES.
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- It's Our Money, Too
- Advocates making paper money accessible to all Americans, including blind people and those who work in low-light settings.
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- Advocating Change Together
- A member-controlled organization, run by and for persons with developmental and other disabilities.
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- American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
- We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
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- Council for Disability Rights
- Advancing rights and enhancing lives for people with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois. Articles on advocating for yourself and coping with the system.
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- Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)
- An independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of attorneys, advocates and parents established to improve the quality and quantity of legal assistance for parents of children with disabilities.
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- Disabled Peoples' International
- A grassroots,cross-disability network with member organizations in over 110 countries, over half of which are in the developing world.
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- Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
- To ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends; and to learn from their mistakes.
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- Washington Speech and Hearing Association
- Advocates for the communicatively impaired, speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
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- Disabled Personal Classifieds Ads
- Online dating and matchmaking service for people with disabilities, and amputees, seeking relationships with disabled and non-disabled men and women.
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